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Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
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.
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 is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
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, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad read more
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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.]