Habit Quote by Sydney Smith Download Open image “Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.” — Sydney Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Habit Habits Melancholy Way
When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
One ought to avoid all unnecessary worry and exciting thoughts, and to cultivate a firm tranquility of mind. Melancholy reflections will in no way… — George Hackenschmidt Copy Share Image
“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian, as it was to the godly Israelites who wrote the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.” — Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay Copy Share Image
It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
The DMK and the Communists may have the habit of lying, but I don't come from a family that lies. — Tamilisai Soundararajan Copy Share Image