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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
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam read more
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
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.
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.
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
First we make our habits, then our habits make us.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook read more
How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step read more
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
