#habit

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home. ↗

— John Dewey

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ↗

— John Dryden

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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ↗

— John Dryden

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As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

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The question is not only what is grown but what it's used for. There's not going to be a mass transformation of dietary habits in rich countries-on the contrary, the first thing people do when they become more prosperous is to buy more meat. ↗

— Susan George

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ↗

— Aristotle

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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. ↗

— Aristotle

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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

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