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The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Category: Habits Author: Samuel Johnson
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Category: Habits Author: Mark Twain
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A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.
Category: Habits Author: Frank A Clark
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Category: Habits Author: John Dryden
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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow.
Category: Habits Source: Yiddish Proverb
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones.
Category: Habits Author: Somerset Maugham
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Category: Habits Author: St Augustine
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Category: Habits Author: Feodor Dostoevski
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Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
Category: Habits Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.
Category: Habits Source: Spanish Proverb
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
Category: Habits Author: Marcel Proust
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The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
Category: Habits
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The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.
Category: Habits Author: Miguel de Unamuno
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Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them, either. They keep you.
Category: Habits Author: Frank Crane
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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Category: Habits Author: William James Source: The Principles of Psychology
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In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
Category: Habits Author: Mignon McLaughlin Source: The Neurotic s Notebook
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Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.
Category: Habits Author: Confucius Source: Analects
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Habit with him was all the test of truth;
It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Category: Habits Author: George Crabbe Source: The Borough
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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Category: Habits Author: Horace Mann
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Category: Habits Author: Mark Twain
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