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«Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Truth | Keywords: custom, depth, false, gem, scale, scaled, scaling, surface, surfaced, surfaces, surface of, weighed, weighing
«The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | Keywords: blazing, Christmas Eve, custom, enormous, Eve, fireplace, fireplaces, glowing, grate, grated, grates, grating, illumine, illumined, illumines, log, logs, overwhelming, removed, sending, squire, volume, Yule, Yule log
«Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent»
Author: Will Durant (Historian, Writer) | About: Truth | Keywords: custom, minority, originates, originate in, originating, precedent
«We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: belong to, climbing, close to, custom, dancing, leaping, lonesome, mountains, open air, paths, preference, prompt, prompting, The Sea, thoughtful
«We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance - and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: association, bonds, chains, circumstance, convention, custom, environment, free association, go in, in chains, in vain, strongest, struggle, The Association, the Convention, the conventions, training, vain
«Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | Keywords: combat, custom, grammar, jest, Rules of, strict
«We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature»
Author: Plutarch (Author, Biographer) | Keywords: custom, sensible
«The empire of custom is most mighty.»
Author: Publilius Syrus | Keywords: custom, Empire, Empire of, The Empire
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