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• Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

  Jules Renard

  Clothes, Fit, Made

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• There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Giving, Way, Tradition

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• As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.

  William Wordsworth

  Art, Strong, Fate

  William Wordsworth (1849). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.339

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• No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Habit, Motive

  "Thackeray and his Novels" by William Makepeace Thackeray, Blackwood's Mag, January 1854.

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• We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

  Plutarch

  Done, Tradition, Sensible

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Innocence, Born, Ceremony

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

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• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
  Her infinite variety.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Infinite

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Belief, Isolation

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Nature, Stars

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art.

  Raja Ravi Varma

  Art, Past, Institutions

  "Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922: Occidental Orientations". Book by Partha Mitter, 1994.

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Reality, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Forgiveness, Believe, Law

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• Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents.

  Pope Francis

  Grace, Agents, Spirit

  "Pope, at rally in stadium, invites charismatics to Vatican in 2017". www.catholicnews.com. July 3, 2014.

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• Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Crime, Accepted

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• New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Ems, Ridiculous

  William Shakespeare, John Margeson (1990). “King Henry VIII”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Women, Order, Law

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.11, Grove Press

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• A deep meaning often lies in old customs.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Lying, Deep Meaning

  "Maria Stuart". Play by Friedrich Schiller (Act I, Scene 7, line 131), June 14, 1800.

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• It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Unexpected, Officers

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Selfish, Habit, Unselfish

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• Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Past, Lasting Change, Effort

  Millicent Fenwick (1948). “Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage”

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• The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universal and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Father, Believe, People

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Battle

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• 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.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Book, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Years, Giving, Have Faith

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• Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionaliti es or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Men, Soul

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