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Customs Quotes - Page 3

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Isaac Watts
Authority, Evidence, Customs

Experience is the mother of custom.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mother, Customs
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

Henry James Sumner Maine
People, Code, Customs
Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.11, Beard Books

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke
Tradition, Reconcile, Customs
'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Blaise Pascal
Principles, Natural, Customs
"Pensées".

Custom determines what is agreeable.

Blaise Pascal
Determine, Customs
Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.102, Letcetera Publishing

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Agnes Repplier
Universality, Pledge, Customs
Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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