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Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine read more
A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits read more
I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]
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.
