Word: habit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...justice to the men who have no lockers in the gymnasium it is but right to say a word against the habit which some men have, of obtaining lockers with no intention of using them. There is, we are sorry to learn, a large number of such men. The lockers which they have obtained they make not the slightest use of, and their advantages are entirely lost. We would urge, therefore, the men who are in possession of lockers which they never utilize to surrender them to men who are in actual and daily need of them...
...standard of the play. Both play and acting have faults, but neither are failures. While few in the audience were blind to the faults of either, few would change them for fear of making them worse. Mr. George W. Wilson received applause which no audience could neglect from habit, or deny to desert. Sir Charles Pomander does not furnish much tribute to Mr. Mason and a flat part got a flat rendering from Mr. Boniface. Miss Annie M. Clarke did not act well enough to make Peg Woffington affecting. but fully well enough to make her amusing. Peg, no doubt...
...report of the New York society for the relief of the poor, the opinion is strongly hinted that the charitable work done by that body in the last fifty years has done more harm than good-that the whole thing is a huge failure. This comes from the injudicious habit of giving alms. Now the poor are not a class, they are a thousand classes; hitherto people have failed to recognize this and as a result have been deluded by the idea that the real work of charity was to give alms, to furnish work, or to improve the homes...
...unless we feel the fundamental intrinsic relationship between God and man. To love a being truly, we must stand before it and feel the magic of its presence. We can stand in the presence of God by "standing in the way of his commandments." Dr. Brooks spoke of the habit of making good resolves at this season of the year. Let all things be done in the love of God instead of love of self. Let us make our resolutions to enter upon a new life of religion and of love rather than merely to break off some habit...