#habit

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

— George Bernard Shaw

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PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' beaux. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#girlfriends #gossip #habit #i #prince

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#appetites #automatic #bring #control #debating

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though. ↗

— Tori Spelling

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Bad shopping habits die hard. ↗

— Tori Spelling

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#being happy #conditions #domination #enables #freed

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

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Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#after #beautiful #daughters #far #habits