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“What becomes decisive to a Justice's functioning on the Court in the large area within which his individuality moves is his general attitude toward law, the habits of the mind that he has formed or is capable of unforming, his capacity for detachment, his temperament or training for putting his passion behind his judgment instead of in front of it. The attitudes and qualities which I am groping to characterize are ingredients of what compendiously might be called dominating humility.”

Source: Felix Frankfurter on the Supreme Court: extrajudicial essays on the Court and the Constitution

“people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.”

People Force Change Enemy Greater Genius Habit Capable Profound Cowardice Metamorphosis

Book:Saturday's Child: A Memoir

Source: Saturday's Child: A Memoir

“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”

May Matter Principles Virtue Habit Capable Ordinary Capacity Customs Virtuous

Author:Norm MacDonald

“When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the rapid changes it has brought about. We hardly feel at home in this landscape of mines and power stations. We have just moved into this new home that we have not even finished yet. Everything around us has changed so fast - personal relations, working conditions, habits. Even our state of mind is in turmoil.”

“It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.”

Long Self Habit Late Capable Too Late Self Control Never Too Late

Author:Seth

“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.”

Ifs Men Feelings Individual Compassion Habit Morality Eating Capable Direct Fellows Independence Doctrine Fellow Man Eating Out Fellow Feeling

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.”

Should Memories Existence Habit Capable Paradise Inferno Good Habits

Book:The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom