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Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
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.
Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
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!]
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
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 is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
