Accustom Quotes

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The best general means to insure the profitable employment of our time is to accustom ourselves to living in continual dependence upon the Spirit of God and His law, receiving, every instant, whatever He is pleased to bestow; consulting Him in every emergency requiring instant action, and having recourse to Him in our weaker moments when virtue seems to fail. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)


Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored. (Quote by - John Berger)


Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845 Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. (Quote by - Fénelon, François)


We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that is good is so rare. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)


Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all. (Quote by - William Cowper)


To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)


We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)


It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to speculate on those which may befall us. (Quote by - François de la Rochefoucauld)


It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure. (Quote by - Fulke Greville)


Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)


Accustom your children constantly to this; if a thing happened at one window and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not know where deviation from truth will end(Quote by - Samuel Johnson)


Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men who can forgive sins, and you will have sins in abundance(Quote by - Thomas Paine)


Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. (Quote by - Epictetus)


Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. (Quote by - St. Teresa of Avila)



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