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Quote by Hosea Ballou
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as a

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

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou

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Evangelism
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The oppression of any people for opinions sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. – Hosea Ballou

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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. – Spanish Proverb

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Habits

The satisfied, the happy, do not live; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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Habits

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

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To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. – Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement. – Alfred Adler

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