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"Don't let your sins turn into bad habits."
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"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

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

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

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."
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"Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives."

"God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person."

"God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher."

"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater."
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