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“The dress does not make the monk. [Fr., L'habit ne fait le moine.]”

Doe Habit Dresses Appearance Monk

Author:Francois Rabelais

“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.”

Years Wells Character Light Action Time Views Five Revolution Habit Regard Appearance Manners Motive Five Years Personal Appearance Gradual Change

Book:Waverley Novels

Source: Waverley Novels

“Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.”

Men Looks Character Habit Conversation Judgment Appearance Judged

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“Five Great Habits for Better Relationships: acceptance (smile each time), appreciation (say thank you to everyone), admiration (compliment people on their appearance or clothing, etc.), approval (praise immediately, specifically and repeatedly), and attention (be a good listener).”

People Attention Five Acceptance Habit Praise Appreciation Appearance Etc Admiration Compliment Clothings Approval Listeners Saying Thank You Good Listener

Author:Brian Tracy

“This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.”

Mean Different Ends Self Matter Artist Passion Our Lives Pride Habit Appearance Contrary Practicals Impression Operations Engaged Labour Communion Terminology

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Time regained

“Bill Clinton gives the appearance of taking stands-for some sort of tax cut, some sort of welfare reform, some sort of balanced budget-but these are ploys, mirages: they exist only to undermine positions taken by the Republicans. He doesn't fight for anything substantive-except of course, re-election. ...He has fallen into the dangerous habit of lip synching the presidency: he gives the appearance of leadership, but not the substance.”

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”

Source: Paine and Jefferson on Liberty

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Long Reason Pain Common Habit Raises Appearance Defense Common Sense Customs Vegan Superficial Formidable Tumult

Book:Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated Common Sense with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Paine (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves to the bad habits of illogical thinking, this world has gradually become so marvelously variegated, frightful, meaningful, soulful, it has acquired color - but we have been the colorists: it is the human intellect that has made appearances appear and transported its erroneous basic conceptions into things.”

“It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.”

Source: As Simple as Snow