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Habit

«First we make our habits, then our habits make us.»
«Habits are safer than rules; you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.»
Author: Frank Crane | About: Habit | Keywords: safer
«Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves»
Author: Horace Bushnell | About: Habit, Soul | Keywords: arteries, artery, courses, moves, vein, veins
«Habits are the shorthand of behavior»
Author: Julie Henderson | About: Habit | Keywords: behavior, shorthand
«For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.»
«Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits»
Author: Robert Puller | About: Habit | Keywords: Bad Habits, break, established, habits, just as
«Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | About: Habit | Keywords: at first, cables, cobweb, cobwebs, habits
«Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly»
«Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.»
«Good habits result from resisting temptation»
Author: Proverb | About: Habit, Temptation

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