Quote by Horace Mann
Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we canno

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. – Horace Mann

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When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. – Horace Mann

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Fear
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. – Horace Mann

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Education
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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. – William James, The Principles of Psychology

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Habits

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. – Chinese Proverb

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Habits

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. – E. M. Cioran

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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. – Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. – Elias Canetti

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