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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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Personal Development
"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state."
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Personal Development
"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?"
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Personal Development
"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."
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Personal Development
"Laws are never as effective as habits."
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Personal Development
"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."
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Personal Development
"I know that trying to begin a new habit may be uncomfortable, inconvenient, or challenging. However, when the goal is to feel terrific, isn't it worth your consideration?"
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Personal Development
"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
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Personal Development
"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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Personal Development
"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
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"The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
Church
"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
Education
"If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane."
Man
"In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds."
Cloud
"There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven."
Men
"A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie."
Truth
"What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy."
Humanity
"Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others."
Character
"When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that god who multiplied the agonies of woman, increased the weary toil of man, and in his anger drowned a world-of that god whose altars reeked with human blood, who butchered babes, violated maidens, enslaved men and filled the earth with cruelty and crime; of that god who made heaven for the few, hell for the many, and who will gloat forever and ever upon the writhings of the lost and damned."
Religion
"I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."
Hope
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