It is one of the most familiar of truisms that "Habit becomes second nature," and that "What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
These seeming truisms are indeed diametrically opposed to a theory which enters on its list of friends names no less illustrious than those of Plato, Sir Thomas More, Bentham, and Mill.
Yet history, too, has its generous commonplaces, its plausibilities of emotion, and no one has ever delighted more than Macaulay did, to appeal to the fine truisms that cluster round love of freedom and love of native land.
Moral truisms have been so much disputed that they have begun to sparkle like so many brilliant paradoxes.
To the imaginative the truisms are all paradoxes, since they were paradoxes in the Stone Age; to them the ordinary copy-book blazes with blasphemy.
They express the sanguine and heroic truisms on which civilization is built; for it is clear that unless civilization is built on truisms, it is not built at all.
I know that such hopeful beings understand all these truisms from within, and can translate them into a doctrine for their own use, through their personal experience.
Silly remarks and idle truisms are traits of a feeble style, and, when their weakness is positive, or inherent, they ought to be entirely omitted.
Tennyson, a very typical nineteenth-century man, uttered one of the instinctivetruisms of his contemporaries when he said that there was faith in their honest doubt.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those quite opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
What had he done but utter common-places and truismsabout duty?
All flat truisms I know, but no longer such to Wingfold to whom they now for the first time showed themselves truths.
A still, small voice of England's mind under panic sent up these truisms containing admonitions to the governing Ladies.
By that,' rejoined Gower, 'I can say Lord Feltre proves there's wisdom in thetruisms of devoutness.
Those principles, instead of being of such a nature as to subserve the purposes of valid argument, are either insignificant truisms which prove nothing, or else they reach the point in dispute only by means of an ambiguity of words.
After reading such a discourse as the Advice to a Young Tradesman, it is easy enough to see why it was that pecuniary truisms took on new life when vitalized by the mind of Franklin.
He had assented to his father's remark that it was a very wet afternoon, but had not carried on the subject into all the varieties of truisms of which it was susceptible.
I grow every day more and more to love only the old God save the King style: the common chords, those truisms of music, like other truisms so little understood in the full.
As a consequence, the truisms flooded him and he lost his guard against our native prosiness.
Truisms are of their essence dull, but they must sometimes be submitted to, and the truism as to a book's possible influence on the young and impressionable cannot here be avoided.
Tennyson, a very typical nineteenth century man, uttered one of the instinctive truisms of his contemporaries when he said that there was faith in their honest doubt.
The very lies of Dublin and Belfast are truer than the truisms of Westminster.
This absence of the red-hot truisms of boyhood; this sense that he is not rooted in the ancient sagacities of infancy, has, I think, a great deal to do with his position as a member of an alien minority in Ireland.
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