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

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Make good habits and they will make you. – Parks Cousins

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Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse. – Chaucer

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Bad habits are easier to abandon today than tomorrow. – Yiddish Proverb

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