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Letter "H" » Habit
«A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine»
Author: George Moore
(Philosopher)
| About:
Change,
Habit,
Reality,
Senses
| Keywords:
About us, pass out, permanency, routine, slight
«A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page»
«A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.»
«A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory»
Author: Austin O'Malley
| About:
Habit
«All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Action,
Chance,
Habit
| Keywords:
Actions, causes, Cause of action, chance, compulsions, desire, habit, human action, passion, reason, seven, sevens, these
«A very slight change of our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world around us»
«As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm.»
«A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit»
«A man may have no bad habits and have worse»
«A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it the superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Habit,
Thinking
| Keywords:
appearance, at first, converts, custom, defense, first appearance, formidable, outcry, raises, subside, subsides, subsiding, superficial, tumult, tumults
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