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Habits are
formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are
strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts.
Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are
formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
-- Mortimer J. Adler
1902-, American Educator,
Philosopher
We are what we
repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
It is well to
be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health,
wealth, and wisdom.
-- Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
Habit is ten
times nature.
-- Duke of Wellington Arthur
Wellesley
1769-1852, British Statesman,
Military Leader
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Habit, if not
resisted, soon becomes necessity.
-- St. Augustine
354-430, Numidian-born Bishop
of Hippo, Theologian
A single bad
habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an
ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
-- Hosea Ballou
1771-1852, American
Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
The power of
habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces
which explain the follies of mankind.
-- Maria De Beausacq
Habit is a
great deadener.
-- Samuel Beckett
1906-1989, Irish Dramatist,
Novelist
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