Quotes with habitual

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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • George Eliot Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Willard Beecher Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
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  • Eustace Budgell Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
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  • Thomas Jefferson He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Oscar Wilde One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Graham Greene People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Joseph Edward Murphy The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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  • Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Charles Baudelaire There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Thomas Troward We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
    Thomas Troward
    English author (1847 - 1916)
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