"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."

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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."

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

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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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?"

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

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."

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"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."

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"Habits grow like dragons if you feed them."

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

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

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

"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?"

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

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

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

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

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

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"The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions."

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."

"No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior."

"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."

"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."

"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."

"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."