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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
"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?"
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Saint Augustine
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood."
"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."
"Music, that is the science or the sense of proper modulation, is likewise given by God's generosity to mortals having rational souls in order to lead them to higher things."
"When spirits fall, their darkness is revealed, for they are stripped of the garment of your light. By the misery and restlessness which they then suffer you make clear to us how noble a being is your rational creation, for nothing less than yourself suffices to give it rest and happiness. This means that it cannot find them in itself. For you, O God, will shine on the darkness about us. From you proceeds our garment of light, and our dusk shall be noonday."
"For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the wanderer: for my return has throughout the whole tract of this world's time waited for Your mercy."
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