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Habit is the nursery of errors
Powerful indeed is the empire of habit
It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain
Pursuits become habits
The chains of custom are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken
Men's natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them
The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations
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
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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