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Tag Name "Custom" (279)

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Custom alone regulates morals.
Anatole France
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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 reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
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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 is the law of fools.
John Vanbrugh
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
Isaac Watts
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Tacitus
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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 is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
Ben Jonson
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Custom does often reason overrule.
John Wilmot
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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 is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
Cecil B. DeMille
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The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.
Agnes Repplier
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If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.
Charles Spurgeon
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A man who's active and incisive can yet keep nail-care much in mind: why fight what's known to be decisive? Custom is despot of mankind.
Alexander Pushkin
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In investment management today, everybody wants not only to win, but to have a yearly outcome path that never diverges very much from a standard path except on the upside. Well, that is a very artificial, crazy construct. That's the equivalent in investment management to the custom of binding the feet of Chinese women
Charlie Munger
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The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror, violence, and the spray of semen...[Lesbianism is] an ideological, political and philosophical means of liberation of all women from heterosexual tyranny.
Cheryl Clarke
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Laughter is a most healthful exercise it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted and the custom prevalent among our forefathers, of exciting it at table by jesters and buffoons, was in accordance with true medical principles.
Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
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