habitude

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Passion might be quenched in the slough of habitude; love’s pinions might molt like any farm-yard hen’s.

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The question, "Why?" which is always appropriate where the explanation of a contradiction is concerned, like all proper habitudes of thought, can overreach itself and be asked where nothing remains to be understood.

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They are not physically strong: they are quiet, weakly-looking men, with little energy and no habitude to hardships.

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This undoubted fact in Lincoln's mental habitude is a signal and significant factor, to be held in careful estimation in a final judgment of Lincoln's character.

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This, and the mental habitude given by his military education and experience, mark him as sui generis among our political leaders.

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