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By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'

Gerolamo Cardano

Men, Light, Games

Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications

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I am accustomed to pay men back in their own coin.

Otto von Bismarck

Men, Coins, Pay

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To sing along with Stevie Wonder, you had to make your voice do things it was not accustomed to doing

Michael Bolton

Voice, Wonder

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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

Henry David Thoreau

Summer, Kings, Winter

Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings: Authoritative Texts, Journal, Reviews and Posthumous Assessments, Criticism”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

Vasily Smyslov

Sports, Art, Strong

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Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Government, Liberty, Enjoy

Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.385, Library of Alexandria

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Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Men, Healthy Habits, Comfort

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When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Self, Grace, Defense

Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.77, Moody Publishers

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I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

Eddie Bernice Johnson

Country, People, Voting

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Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability to let ourselves feel good and have things go well for any significant period of time.

Gay Hendricks

Inspirational, Pain, Struggle

Gay Hendricks, PhD (2009). “The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level”, p.8, Harper Collins

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Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, becoming, as might seem. The outward functions of intelligent man.

William Wordsworth

Baby, Fall, Sleep

William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.491

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I'm so very happy to be here, ... My lifelong dream is to win, and I was accustomed to winning before I got to Cincinnati. From Bantam League, to middle school, high school and at Auburn, I was always on winning teams. I just want to win again.

Takeo Spikes

Dream, Team, School

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But we do now receive a certain portion of His Spirit, tending towards perfection, and preparing us for incorruption, being little by little accustomed to receive and bear God

Irenaeus of Lyons

Perfection, Littles, Bears

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You feel very much like a puppet, but it had been what I was accustomed to - so you just get on with it and try to find something that rings true.

Emily Blunt

Trying, Puppets, Feels

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Arthur Twining Hadley

Men, Debt, Pay

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It's been a long blessed career. I've been riddled with injuries the past two and a half years and haven't been able to quite compete as I'm accustomed to. At this point, I just really want to enjoy it and put it all on the line when I'm out there.

Terrence Trammell

Blessed, Athlete, Past

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We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

Dollars, Becoming, Billions

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Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the information that comes in, managing our relationships electronically, deleting stuff that doesn't interest us. We edit the world; we select from menus; we pick and choose; our social 'group' focuses on us and disintegrates without us. This makes it rather confusing for us when we step outdoors and discover that other people's behaviour can't be deleted with a simple one-stroke command or dragged to the trash icon.

Lynne Truss

Simple, Skills, Icons

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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark - And crowd the little Room - Too scant - by Cubits - to contain The Sacrament - of Him - I am not used to Hope - It might intrude upon - Its sweet parade - blaspheme the place - Ordained to Suffering - It might be easier To fail - with Land in Sight - Than gain - My Blue Peninsula - To perish - of Delight -

Emily Dickinson

Sweet, Loneliness, Fate

Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.38, Heinemann

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But the division in him was a sorrow and a torment, and he became accustomed to it only as one gets used to an unhealed and frequently reopened wound.

Boris Pasternak

Sorrow, Division, Used

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Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

Harper Lee

Father, Understanding, Diction

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We wear a lot of labels in our lives, and it's so very easy to be defined by them. We have grown somehow accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a size eight or a size fourteen, as a capricorn or a taurus, as single or in love.

Ally Carter

Thinking, Eight, Labels

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If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Robin Hobb

Fashion, Hurt, Pain

Robin Hobb (2002). “Fool's Errand: The Tawny Man Trilogy”, p.611, Spectra

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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Betty Smith

Girl, Lonely, Suffering

BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Leo Tolstoy

Light, No Fear, Fear Of Death

Leo Tolstoy (2010). “The Death of Ivan Ilych: English-Russian Parallel Text Edition”, p.122, Lulu.com

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