“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.” SoulEndsDesireCertainIndividualStrongNumbersHabitLimitsSpeciesAcquirePreservationAccustomedSuperfluous Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.” WantLongWarUseInterestingEventsRevolutionHabitIncapableAccustomedFurAmerican RevolutionTolerableCherokee Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Everyone is desirous of his own pursuits, and loves To spend his time in his accustomed art.” ArtHabitAnd LovePursuitAccustomedSpecialization Author:Ovid
“The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.” PeoplePersonsActionMovingLosesWifeHabitQuietLowsCalmNoiseMannersTraitsAccustomedSpoonsAffront Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.” PeopleLongEnoughInterestBornPathIdentityHabitDegreesLong TimeShadowScaredShadeAccustomedSeemingProminentNarrow Path Author:Charlotte Bronte