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“To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.”

Should Wells Bears Habit Impatience

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.”

May Children Women Serious Bears Habit

Book:What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

Source: What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong

“Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".”

Ifs Art Facts Ready Bears Habit Medicine Fruit Oneself Conclusion Acquire Affirmation Infallible Deceptive Treacherous Generalization Hold Fast

Author:Hippocrates

“Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Mean States Kids Form Morning Wife Dog Bears Habit Ten Paper Addiction Ass Awful Clock Kicks Get Back State Of Mind Twelve Symptoms Get Real Really Mean Withdrawal

Author:Frank Pierson

“Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood.”

Source: The Essays of George Eliot: Top Novelist Focus

“The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.”

Thinking Giving Helping Language Grows Tree Personality Bears Habit Speech Asking Distance Forests Reserves Exalted Inexorable Interchange

Book:The Song of the Lark

Source: The Song of the Lark

“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

Men Giving May Voice Rich He Man Bears Habit Judgment Ears Every Man Thee Fancy Reserves Quarrels Purses Entrances Censure Apparel Gaudy Important Hamlet Polonius

Author:William Shakespeare

“One remains young as long as one can still learn, can still take on new habits, can bear contradictions.”

Long Stills Young Bears Habit Remains Contradiction New Habits

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.”

Thinking Writing Years Long I Can Form Fun Lines Half Break Novel Advice Bears Habit Pages Prose Length Pace Excess Proceeding Best Advice All The Best Rewriting Snail Tinkering

Author:Debra Dean

“A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them.”

Men Needs Share Bears Habit Quitting Dark Tower

Book:The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

“I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.”

Want Mind Bears Habit Travel Picks Italian Venice Bad Habits Want Him Brideshead Revisited Good Mind

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.”

“The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.”

People Men Needs Hands Past Brain Break Bears Habit Gun Roots Machines Blind Ice Tigers Allegiance Very Deep Machine Guns

Author:Loren Eiseley