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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 - F nelon, Fran ois)

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 - Fran ois 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)

Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe; we should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in selfish enjoyment. But we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human life, of the solitary cottage, the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)

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

Accustom children to a true notion of things. (Quote by - George Shelley)

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience. You will find it a calamity. (Quote by - Johnson, Samuel)

Accustom yourself gradually to carry prayer into all your daily occupations. Speak, move, work, in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be. Do everything without excitement, by the spirit of grace. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing. (Quote by - Matthew Hale)

We can accustom ourselves to anything. (Quote by - Proverb)

When the Son of Man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth? If He should now come, would He find it in us? What fruits of faith have we to show? Do we look upon this life only as a short passage to a better? Do we believe that we must suffer with Jesus Christ before we can reign with Him? Do we consider this world as a deceitful appearance, and death as the entrance to true happiness? Do we live by faith? Does it animate us? Do we relish the eternal truths it presents us with? Are we as careful to nourish our souls with those truths as to maintain our bodies with proper diet? Do we accustom ourselves to see all things in the light of faith? Do we correct all our judgements by it? Alas! The greater part of Christians think and act like mere heathens; if we judge (as we justly may) of their faith by their practice, we must conclude they have no faith at all. (Quote by - Fenelon, Francois)

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty. (Quote by - Hugh Blair)

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

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