Overindulgence Quotes

• An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

  Criss Jami

  Water, Abuse, Pure

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires

  Edmund Burke

  Feelings, Desire, Want

  "Impact of a Father's Reflection". Book by Frank L. Day, p. 44, 2010.

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• Many a bad habit is developed through overindulgence, and many a good one by chastisement; therefore, beat your son as well as your pupil; never indulge them.

  Chanakya

  Son, Habit, Pupils

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• People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.

  Will Cotton

  Sweet, People, Feelings

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• An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Strong, Imagination, May

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• The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Selfish, Heart, Greed

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• The life of our class, of the wealthy and the learned, was not only repulsive to me but had lost all meaning. The sum of our action and thinking, of our science and art, all of it struck me as the overindulgences of a spoiled child.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Children, Thinking

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