#habitual

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

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. ↗

— Anthony Storr

#destroys #except #exception #habitually #his

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. ↗

— Humphry Davy

#duties #given #great #habitually #heart

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

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The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage devoted to them in the regions where they are grown habitually. ↗

— David F. Houston

#crops #devoted #effective #enlarge #grown

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#cope #effects #electric #habitually #information

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#character #conversation #habitually #learned #man

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

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