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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."
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"Habit is the nursery of errors."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
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"How use doth breed a habit in a man!"
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
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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?"
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"Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits."
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"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
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"The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions."
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"I also smoked two cigarettes, which was pretty good considering I could have smoked five if I'd really tried."
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"Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time."
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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
Man

"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
Life

"The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives."
Man

"One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling."
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
Faith

"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."
Act

"Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done."
Work

"It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again."
Age

"Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."
Genius

"Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
Mind
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