"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

Habit, Appearance, Being, Right

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Habit,

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Habit, Water, Will

"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Habit, Repetition, Humor, Behavior, Awareness

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Habit,

"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Habit, Perfection

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"Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise."

Politics

"But with respect to religion itself, without regard to names, and as directing itself from the universal family of mankind to the divine object of adoration, it is man bringing to his maker the fruits of his heart; and though these fruits may differ from each other like the fruits of the earth, the grateful tribute of everyone is accepted."

Spiritual

"A hereditary monarch is as absurd a position as a hereditary doctor or mathematician."

Politics

"Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul."

Philosophy

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

Character

"O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind."

Freedom

"It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes."

God

"All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe."

Faith

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

Character

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum."

Absence