"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

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"Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"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,

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

Habit, Addiction, Irony, Control, Health

"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

Mark Twain, American Author

Habit, Change, Patience, Progress

"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

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

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

Habit, Habits, Living

"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

Habit, Loyalty, Old, Fidelity

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

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Habit, Life, Choice, Practice

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"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

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"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

Happiness

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

Progress

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

Ambition

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

Gratitude

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."

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

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

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

"You are not smoking cigarette, it's cigarette that is smoking you."

"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."

"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."

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

"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."

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

Explore more quotes by Henry Van Dyke

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

"Genius is talent set on fire by courage."

"Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live."

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

"Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key."

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."