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Tag Name "Custom" (280)

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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Isaac Watts
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Custom, law bent my first years to the religion of the happy Muslims. I see it too clearly: the care taken of our childhood forms our feelings, our habits, our belief. By the Ganges I would have been a slave of the false gods, a Christian in Paris, a Muslim here.
Voltaire
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Custom, that is before all law Nature, that is above all art.
Samuel Daniel
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Custom is almost a second nature.
Plutarch
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Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
Andrew Michael Ramsay
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
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Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
Ben Jonson
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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.
David Hume
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Custom determines what is agreeable.
Blaise Pascal
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Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.
Brand Blanshard
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Custom does often reason overrule.
John Wilmot
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon
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Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Custom is the law of fools.
John Vanbrugh
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Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.
Johan Huizinga
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To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom.
John Daly
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Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!
John Keats
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Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.
Friedrich Schiller
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If you are curious, you won't be satisfied with the tyranny of custom. People stuck in that rut might say why? and the first thing an exploratory person would say is why not?
John Medina
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The danger is to cling to comfort and custom at a time when events demand breaking away from both. But it is also foolish to jump at every startling moment. Darwin selects primarily for prudent fast-following.
Geoffrey Moore
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