"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."

Tradition, Religion, Law, Society

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"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."

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"I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To this day it gives me a faint feeling of sacrilege not to stand to attention during 'God save the King'. That is childish, of course, but I would sooner have had that kind of upbringing than be like the left-wing intellectuals who are so 'enlightened' that they cannot understand the most ordinary emotions."

George Orwell, British Author

Tradition, Childhood, Discipline, Emotion

"I felt like I belonged to an ancient tradition of all young people given this same task of finding their own ways through to the futures they wanted for themselves."

Aspen Matis, American Author

Tradition, Youth, Journey, Future

"Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table-silver or a walking-stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Tradition, History, Past, Life

"Cultural values change with times, unless they are built on an absolute standard of values and virtues. This standard must be afterwards well-guarded and protected."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Tradition, Culture, Values, Change, Protection

"So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Tradition, Religion, History, Marriage

"Gossiping's part of witchcraft,' said Tiffany. 'They're checking to see if they've gone batty yet."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Tradition, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Humor

"There's always time for arguin' when you're a Fuentes."

Simone Elkeles, American Author

Tradition, Argument, Family, Humor

"Light a campfire and everyone's a storyteller."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

Tradition, Storytelling, Community, Life

"Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of."

Ellen Goodman, American Journalist

Tradition, Deep, Traditions

"The yearly tradition of Christmas is bountifully supported - without the need to ever fade."

Eleesha, British Author

Tradition, Christmas, Joy, Celebration

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"Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible."

Philosophy

"An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away from us; and we, adrift in chaos, may hearken to the gusts of homeless wind, that go sighing and murmuring about in quest of what was once a world!"

Philosophy

"The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!"

Psychology

"That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment."

Reflection

"Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass."

Philosophy

"Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?"

World

"It is the unspeakable misery of a life so false as his, that it steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities there are around us, and which were meant by Heaven to be the spirit's joy and nutriment. To the untrue man, the whole universe is false-it is impalpable-it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist."

Philosophy

"America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash--and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumberable editions of The Lamplighter (by Maria Susanna Cummins), and other books neither better nor worse? Worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by the hundred thousand."

America

"Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?"

Travel

"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

Thought