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It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually

It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half of our life. Study, application, industry, enthusiasm while we are young usually enable us to enjoy life when we grow older. But unless we toil and strive and earn all we can in the first half, the second half of our life is liable to bring disappointment, discomfort, distress. The time to put forth effort is when we are most able to do it, namely, in the years of our greatest strength. The law of compensation hasn't ceased to function.

B. C. Forbes

Disappointment, Indulge In, Years

I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

Ashton Kutcher

Writing, Indulge In, People

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

Anne Fortier

Giving Up, Men, Indulge In

Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.85, Ballantine Books

The less serious running of any description which an athlete indulges in before eighteen, the better for his future prospects.

Alfred Shrubb

Running, Athlete, Indulge In

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

Alethea Kontis

Indulge In, Interesting, Fantasy

Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Alessandro Manzoni

Indulge In, Joy, Secret

Alessandro Manzoni (1962). “The Betrothed, "I Promessi Sposi": A Tale of XVII Century Milan”

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Aldous Huxley

Love, Indulge In, Degrees

Aldous Huxley (2009). “Island”, p.269, Random House