"Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity" — George Bernard Shaw

More Accustom Quotes

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• Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe… — Marcus Aurelius
• Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. — Teresa of Avila
• Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. — John Berger
• Accustom yourself to tireless activity. — Alexander Suvorov
• Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you… — Francois Fenelon
• Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. — Samuel Johnson
• The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort… — Alexander Pope
• We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of… — Dmitri Shostakovich
• I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well — Oscar Wilde
• Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the… — Marcus Aurelius
• We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to… — Blaise Pascal
• Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness… — Seraphim Rose

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