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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
Habits form character and character is destiny.
Habits form character and character is destiny.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
