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Habits
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“... nothing in life is more corroding than habit.”
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“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”
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“The human race has always clung to the established habits and customs of life, has always been loath to give up what was once found good.”
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“Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.”
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“... the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.”
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“... habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness ... ”
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“... I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.”
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“Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.”
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“Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.”
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“Character is nothing but habit. Strong when habit is strong.”
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“Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.”
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“Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.”
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“... habit is our idea of eternity.”
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“Things start as hopes and end up as habits.”
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“Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie: when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.”
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“Small habits well pursu'd betimes, / May reach the dignity of crimes.”
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“Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.”
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“Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!”
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“... habit, a particularly insidious thug who chokes passion and smothers love. Habit puts us on autopilot.”
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“... habit has a kind of poetry.”
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“It is easier to learn a bad habit than to break one. It is easier to break a good habit than to learn one.”
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“... habit, you know, blunts the moral sense.”
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“Life is but a collection of habits.”
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“Habit: Often mistaken for love.”
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“Old habits are strong and jealous.”
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“It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.”
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“Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.”
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“The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.”
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“Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.”
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“It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!!”
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“What custom hath endear'd / We part with sadly, though we prize it not ...”
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“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”
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“When passion and habit long lie in company it is only slowly and with incredulity that habit awakens to finds its companion fled, itself alone.”
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“... you built your life out of little habits.”
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“... people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.”
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“I don't smoke anymore, never have been much of a drinker, but I still have three mighty bad habits I can't seem to shake. When I'm not Shoulding on myself, I'm either Musterbating or suffering from Clogged Oughteries.”
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“Habits do not like to be abandoned, and besides, they have the virtue of being tools.”
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“I don't need an alarm clock, for habit is the best alarm there is.”
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“Habits are the shorthand of behavior.”
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“Good habits were the easiest ones to break ...”
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“People cannot change their habits without first changing their way of thinking.”
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“Habit prevents us from asking ourselves whether we continue to enjoy doing what we do.”