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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.

How many unjust and wicked things are done from mere habit.

In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong, Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all of your annoying habits are gone.

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Good habits result from resisting temptation.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

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.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.