add white space to manually indent line

For those who would like to know how to achieve space at the beginning of any line:

Tex prevents that, it has to have breakable text in front of white space. \- is the key for breakable, therefore \-\ Text works.

Seems like you're trying to reinvent something.

\begin{itemize}
    \item This is the first line \\ %line with dot
          This is the second line   %line without dot 
    \item Next line with dot
\end{itemize}