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    We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

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Custom is the great guide to human life

Custom is the great guide to human life

by David Hume Found in: Custom Quotes,
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let read more

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

by Martha Graham Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

by Jean-jacques Rousseau Found in: Custom Quotes,
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There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in read more

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.

by Joseph Anderson Found in: Custom Quotes,
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The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

by Charles Caleb Colton Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom read more

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

by Joseph Wood Krutch Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the read more

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

by J. Bartlett Found in: Custom Quotes,
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Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

by Thomas Fuller Found in: Custom Quotes,
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No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs read more

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

by Ruth Benedict Found in: Custom Quotes,
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