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"Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?"
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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

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

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."
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"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."

"Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending."

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

"There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals."

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

"Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?"

"Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."

"Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God. By the green land; by the bright hearthstone! this is the magic glass, man; I see my wife and my child in thine eye. No, no; stay on board, on board!- lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!"
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