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A large part of Christian virtue con­sists in good habits.

All habits gather, by unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

Bad habits are as infectious by example as the plague itself is by contact.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Habit is a shackle for the free.

Habit is either the best of servants, or the worst of masters.

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectably, and unhappy men to live calmly.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature.

Habit with him was all the test of truth; "it must be right, I've done it from my youth."

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically directed, it will be as it were the ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly.

Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables.

Habits are soon assumed; but when we endeavor to strip them off, it is being flayed alive.

Habits are the petrefaction of feelings.

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.

Habits work more constantly and with greater force than reason, which, when we hare most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed.

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may, in the end, prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.

How use doth breed a habit in a man! this shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.


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