#habitual

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ↗

— William James

#habitual #human #human being #indecision #miserable

The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually kills it when there is soft snow and scarcity of easier prey. ↗

— Ernest Thompson Seton

#between #cat #deadly #dog #easier

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#century #countryside #dumped #engage #european

Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#day #discomfort #forced #habitually #hope

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#always #bears #cease #equal #genius

Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#asked #comes #doing #habitually #more

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#bad #denigrate #emotionally #enjoy #fill

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#ascertained #assumptions #believes #creed #habitually

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#exertions #habitual #his #man #measured