Quotes 21 till 40 of 43.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
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Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
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Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
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That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
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The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.
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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.
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To me the ''female principle'' is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.
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We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?
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