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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger read more
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
