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“How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.”

Thinking Knows Should Mind Persons Long Justice Effects Ought Habit Fairs Aids Administration Assistance Blunders Habits Of Mind Administration Of Justice

Author:Learned Hand

“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”

Ifs Men Feels Soul Ends Force Attention Grace Duty Ought Habit Office Sake Earnest Persevere God's Grace Kindliness

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.”

Men Humans Matter Human Beings Half Consciousness Regret Ought Habit Conservative Enormous Agents Miserable Habitual Indecision

Author:William James

“A young man ought to cross his own rules, to awake his vigor, and to keep it from growing faint and rusty. And there is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is carried on by rule and discipline.”

Men Young Courses Growing Ought Habit Discipline Crosses Weak Young Man Awake Vigor Course Of Life

Book:All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

Source: All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne

“The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he beforehand anticipates. In a moral point of view, the effect ought to be, to teach him good-humored patience, freedom from selfishness, the habit of acting for himself, and of making the best of every occurrence.”

Feels May Views Acting Moral Teach Cases Effects Danger Ought Habit Difficulty Point Of View Selfishness Traveler Assured Anticipate

Author:Charles Darwin

“Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.”

People Reason Eye Ought Habit Fixed Disposition

Author:Francesco Guicciardini

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.”

People Helping Age Young Time Ought Habit Tools Aging Get Over Bad Habits Correcting

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”

War Pain Remember Virtue Ought Habit Planning 4th Of July Carpe Diem Posterity Hereditary Vice And Virtue

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“It is indeed difficult to imagine how men who have entirely renounced the habit of managing their own affairs could be successful in choosing those who ought to lead them. It is impossible to believe that a liberal, energetic, and wise government can ever emerge from the ballots of a nation of servants.”

Men Believe Government Nations Difficult Successful Wise Imagine Impossible Ought Habit Affair Servant Being Successful Energetic Ballots

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr. Neil Gaiman, scrivener, and then doodled, elaborated upon, illustrated, and beaten soundly by Mr. Cris Grimly, etcher and illuminator, featuring two brave children, their diminutive but no less courageous gazelle, and a large number of extremely dangerous trolls, monsters, bugbears, creatures, and other such nastiness, many of which have perfectly disgusting eating habits and ought not, under any circumstances, to be encouraged.”