#habit

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

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Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. ↗

— Plutarch

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I have some weird habits. For instance, I love beets. Show me a salad bar and I will clean them out of their beets. ↗

— Chris Pratt

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. ↗

— John Dryden

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The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct. ↗

— Elihu Root

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I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends. ↗

— Jose Saramago

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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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