"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

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"Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

Eric Hoffer, American Writer

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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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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."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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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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"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

Anthony Burgess, English Novelist

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"Habits are good if you have the habit of the best."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"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."

Mark Batterson, American Author

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"My worst habit is whistling while I sleep."

Billy Boyd, Scottish Actor

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"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."

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"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction."

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"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."

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

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"Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity."

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"Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect."

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"Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author."

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"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

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"Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world."

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