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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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. – Marcel Proust

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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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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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Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. – Agatha Christie

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