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«So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.»
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Author, Philanthropist, Writer)
| Keywords:
administration, affections, beating, belonging, considers, desirable, exchange, heart failure, hopeless, imprudence, indulgence, indulgences, kindest, owner, regulated, the Master, toil
«This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.»
Author: Walt Whitman
(Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age»
Author: Walter Savage Landor
(Writer)
| About:
Adulthood,
Study
| Keywords:
adulthood, bane, indulgence, indulgences, restorative
«Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
indulgence, indulgences, loyalty, mindless, proof, self-indulgence, values
«The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| About:
Crime,
Self-esteem,
Self-interest
| Keywords:
arise, crimes, indulgence, indulgences, sensibilities, sensibility
«It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
| About:
Belief,
Gossip
| Keywords:
discuss, gossip, indulgence, indulgences, it An, juicy, sit in
«There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
indulgence, indulgences, in restraint, limits, none, restraint, self-indulgence
«Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
basilica, cajole, cajoled, Christians, indulgences, peter, peter out, pope, St Peter, the pope