"Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running."
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"Change of habit cannot alter Nature."
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"There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit."
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"All our "most sacred affections " are merely prosaic habit."
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"We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life."
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"Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit."
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"It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them."
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"There are no bad foods, only bad food habits."
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"As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course."
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"Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
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"Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection."
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"From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him."
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"Love's best habit is a soothing tongue"
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"Use almost can change the stamp of nature."
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"Watch your habits, they determine your character."
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"Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding."
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"Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits."
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"The masses have no habit of self-reliance or original action."
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"Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame"
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"Habit is the deepest law of human nature"
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