#habitual

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. ↗

— Sallust

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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

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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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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

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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

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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

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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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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Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. ↗