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Habitable Quotes (page 28)

There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men. George Eliot
For all our penny-wisdom, for all out soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts. Ralph Waldo Emerson
J. K. Rowling quote: "Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our..."
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open. J. K. Rowling
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always..."
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Edith Wharton quote: "It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly..."
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. Edith Wharton
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself. Mark Twain
Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It was such a novelty that he feared people would laugh at him in church; he was greatly relieved, and a little proud, to find that they did not. He also worried, not unreasonably, that the hair of wigs might come from plague victims. Perhaps nothing... Bill Bryson
People who start a sentence with personally (and they're always women) ought to be thrown to the lions. It's a repulsive habit. Georgette Heyer
One honest John Tompkins, a hedger & ditcher, Although he was poor, did not want to be richer; For all such vain wishes in him were prevented. By a fortunate habit of being contented. Jane Taylor
Although I am capable, through long dabbling in blue magic, of imitating any prose in the world (but singularly enough not verse—I am a miserable rhymester), I do not consider myself a true artist, save in one matter: I can do what only a true artist can do—pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation, wean myself abruptly from the habit of things, see the web of the world, and the warp and the weft of that web. Vladimir Nabokov
Dave Eggers quote: "Anything built here, an unrelenting desert, was an act of..."
Anything built here, an unrelenting desert, was an act of sheer will imposed on territory unsuited for habitation. Dave Eggers
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us. John F. Kennedy
Orson Scott Card quote: "We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a..."
We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake."A habit. Orson Scott Card
No, she can weather his disappointments if she has to, that isn't the problem, she can put up with anything as long as she feels he is solidly with her, but that is precisely what she doesn't feel anymore, and even if he seems content to glide along with her out of old habits, the reflex of old affections, she is becoming ever more certain, no, certain is probably too strong a word for it, she is becoming ever more willing to entertain the idea that he has stopped loving her. Paul Auster
But yet it is evident that religion consists so much in affection, as that without holy affection there is no true religion; and no light in the understanding is good which does not produce holy affection in the heart: no habit or principle in the heart is good which has no such exercise; and no external fruit is good which does not proceed from such exercises. Jonathan Edwards

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