"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

Habit, Habits, Novelty

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"Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty."

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"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Habit,

"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Habit, Being

"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

Habit, Reading, Ambition, Books, Procrastination

"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

W. C. Fields, American Comedian

Habit, Water, Will

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

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Habit,

"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

Habit, Repetition, Humor, Behavior, Awareness

"Habit is the nursery of errors."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Habit, Errors

"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Habit, Power, Truth, Wisdom, Regret

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Habit,

"In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!"

Edmund Husserl, German Philosopher

Habit, Perfection

Explore more quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

"When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman."

Work

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

Man

"Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do."

Man

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

Thought

"The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest."

Burden

"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates."

Happiness

"The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love."

Love

"The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things."

Being

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all."

Fear

"To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal."

People