"Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances."
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"We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct."
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"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits."
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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."
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"To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well."
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"Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way."
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"Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]"
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"Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon."
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"Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]"
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"And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head."
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"Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it."
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"No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person."
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"You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you"
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"The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing"
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"Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves."
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"Habit is the most imperious of all masters."
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"Bad habits are our enemies because they hinder us from being the person we want to be."
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"I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould."
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"Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught."
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it."
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