Quote by Thomas Hardy
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom i

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. – Thomas Hardy

Other quotes by Thomas Hardy

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement. – John Stuart Mill

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People do more from custom than from reason. – Source Unknown

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Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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