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Reconcile Quotes

We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.231, Broadview Press

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

John Locke, Alfred Howard (1834). “The Beauties of Locke, Consisting of Selections from His Philosophical, Moral, and Theological Works”, p.62

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.379, Library of America

The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.

Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.260

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.27, Рипол Классик

Seeing the world differently is one of the toughest incompatibilities to reconcile in a relationship.

"My partner's negativity gets me down" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2013.

Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.

Margaret Deland (2015). “The Iron Woman”, p.64, The Floating Press

It is easier to say new things than to reconcile those which have already been said.

Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Custom reconciles us to everything.

'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 4, sect. 18