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A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Beggar's Bush (act II, sc. 3, l. 210)
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Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (V, 25)
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Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Author: George Crabbe
Source: The Borough (letter III)
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A nail is driven out by another nail, habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Clavus clavo pellitur, consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Diluculum
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We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions,
and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our
characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.
Author: Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Source: Diluculum
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A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Rasselas (ch. XII)
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Habits form character and character is destiny.
Author: Joseph Kaines
Source: Our Daily Faults and Failings, an address
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Habit is overcome by habit.
[Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]
Author: Joseph Kaines
Source: Our Daily Faults and Failings, an address
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Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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Sow an action, reap a habit.
Author: Hannah More
Source: Florio (pt. I)
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Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (II, 345)
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Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Heroides (XV, 83)
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (bk. XV, l. 155), (Dryden's translation)
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Habit had made the custom.
[Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Metamorphoses (II, 345)
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a
character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Author: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Source: De Institutione Oratoria (I, 3, 3)
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Habit is stronger than nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]
Author: Quintus Curtius Rufus (Curtis Rufus Quintus)
Source: De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni (V, 5, 21)
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How use doth breed a habit in a man!
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods,
I better brook than flourishing peopled towns.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
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The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]
Author: Caius Tranquillus Suetonius
Source: Vespasianus (16)
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Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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I perceive that the things that we do are silly; but what can one
do? According to men's habits and dispositions, so one must
yield to them.
[Lat., Inepta haec esse, nos quae facimus sentio;
Verum quid facias? ut homo est, ita morem geras.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Adephi (III, 3, 76)
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How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.
[Lat., Quam multa injusta ac prava fiunt moribus!]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Heauton timoroumenos (IV, 7, 11)
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In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
Author: Isaac Williams
Source: The Baptistry (image 18)
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Author: Saint Augustine
Source: None
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It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.
Author: Merrill Markoe
Source: None
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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
Author: Charles Reade
Source: None
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Good habits result from resisting temptation.
Author: Ancient Proverb
Source: None
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.
Author: Agatha Christie
Source: None
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Author: Lillian Hellman
Source: None
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Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Source: None
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Source: None
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The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Author: Marcel Proust
Source: None
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Author: Ralph W. Sockman
Source: None
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
Author: James Baldwin
Source: None
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Old habits are strong and jealous.
Author: Dorothea Brande
Source: None
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Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
Author: Julie Henderson
Source: None
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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Each year, one vicious habit rooted out, in time ought to make the worst man good.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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