"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"

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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"

Exlpore more Habit quotes

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Habit,

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Living

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Habit, Repetition, Humor, Behavior, Awareness

"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Habit, Smoking, Control, Choice

"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

Habit, Habits

"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

Habit, Habits

Explore more quotes by Herman Melville

"Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order."

Society, Humanity, Order, Observation, Truth

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

Fear, Ignorance, Truth, Awareness

"How I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast."

Memory, Nostalgia, Adventure, Youth

"Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease."

Ambition, Mortality, Truth, Power

"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life."

Life, Death, Awareness, Truth

"What is it, what nameless, inscrutable, unearthly thing is it; what cozening, hidden lord and master, and cruel, remorseless emperor commands me; that against all natural loving and longings, I so keep pushing, and crowding, and jamming myself on all the time; recklessly making me ready to do what in my own proper, natural heart, I durst not so much as dare?"

Self, Desire, Fear, Truth, Observation

"There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men."

Philosophy, Madness, Humanity, Observation, Reflection

"But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth-pagans and all included-can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?-to do the will of God-that is worship. And what is the will of God?-to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me-that is the will of God."

Religion, Worship, Faith, Ethics, Truth

"For it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown."

Perspective, Resilience, Optimism, Truth, Humor

"The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating them, till they are left living with half a heart and half a lung."

Literature, Obsession, Isolation, Humanity, Danger