Word: habit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Wales and there lived as a literary vagabond. In a short time, he was discovered and removed by friends. In October 1803, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, and sought neither friends nor university honors. The exposure and privations which he had previously experienced drove him to the demoralizing habit of eating opium, the source of so many pains and pleasures. The deadly habit soon became a daily practice and was accompanied with the taken of laudanum...
...shattered condition of the household finances caused De Quincey to awake from his opium habit in which he languished from 1817 to 1821. He was a constant contributer to the different English magazines and amid hopeless confusion, he carried on his literary work. The publication of his book on the Confessions of an English Opium Eater was a startling revelation to the literary people of the world. He lived by his pen for fifty years and when his magazine articles were collected they filled fifty volumes. All these articles are characterized by individuality, humor, imagination and the evident results...
...confused as we proceed in something that at the outset looked simple enough, and sometimes we even forget our original purpose. In Lent most of us try a little more earnestly to improve ourselves, for example we try to break loose from some bad habit or to help others nearer to God. Towards the end of Lent, though, we usually find that we have not done so well as we hoped to. What we must do then, is to look to our original purpose and with God's help put in some earnest work before Easter. It is very well...
...news he must have observation, that is plain; there are circumstances when a strong memory is the only means for retaining it, and that will become equally plain through experience. Accuracy is one of the rarest and yet certainly the most valuable traits of the able reporter. The habit must be so impressed upon him that not even the hot haste of the newspaper office shall destroy it. A reporter, if he possesses this one quality of reliable accuracy, will never want a position. The need for perseverance and pluck comes from the fact that the greater amount of news...
Legislation treats this question in its social relations. It is often supposed that there is but one right law, which should be enacted no matter what the results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...