"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Habit, Effect, Excess, Moderation

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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"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

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"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

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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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"The gnarled fidelity of an old habit."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

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"A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes."

Religion

"You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action."

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"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."

Beauty

"It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it."

Acceptance

"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."

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"When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?"

Sacrifice

"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."

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"Writing is the supreme solace."

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"Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes."Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

Reflection