"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"

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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"

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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"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."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"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?"

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."

Saint Teresa of Avila, Spanish Saint

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"An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."

Courage

"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

Courage

"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."

Nature

"There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is."

Wisdom

"Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges."

Truth

"Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister."

Truth

"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself."

Philosophy

"In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."

Life

"Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor."

Compassion

"But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth-pagans and all included-can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?-to do the will of God-that is worship. And what is the will of God?-to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me-that is the will of God."

Religion