Quote by Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. – Samuel Johnson

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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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Apathy
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Cruelty
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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Imagination
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Habits
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The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful. – Doug Henning

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Habits

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. – Dale Carnegie

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Habits

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

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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. – St. Augustine

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The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event. – Roland Barthes

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