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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Habits are safer than rules; you dont have to watch them. And you dont have to keep them either. They keep you. – Frank Crane

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

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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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Good habits result from resisting temptation. – Proverb

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