"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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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."

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"Habits are good if you have the habit of the best."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

Mark Batterson, American Author

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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

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"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

Charles Farrar Browne, American Writer

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."

Frank Howard Clark, American Writer

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"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."

Maria Mitchell, American Scientist

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"That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names."

Education

"But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing."

Nature

"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion."

Politics

"Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice."

Society

"Is the power who is jealous of our prosperity, a proper power to govern us?"

Politics

"I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. - A fit story for ridicule, if it was written to be believed; or of laughter, if it was intended to try what credulity could swallow; for, if it could swallow Jonah and the whale it could swallow anything."

Imagination

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

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"My mind is my own church."

Church

"I have shown in all the foregoing parts of this work that the Bible and Testament are impositions and forgeries; and I leave the evidence I have produced in proof of it to be refuted, if any one can do it; and I leave the ideas that are suggested in the conclusion of the work to rest on the mind of the reader; certain as I am that when opinions are free, either in matters of govemment or religion, truth will finally and powerfully prevail."

Philosophy

"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."

Law