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Persian Proverb

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Topic: Habits
Location: Glacier National Park, Lake McDonald
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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We shape our buildings: thereafter, our buildings shape us. — Winston Churchill

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. — Horace Mann

Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits. — Benjamin Franklin

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Success is a habit; unfortunately so is losing. — Vince Lombardi

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain

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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams

How use doth breed a habit in man. — William Shakespeare

All work is as seed sown: it grows and spreads and sows itself anew. — Thomas Carlyle

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. — Virginia Woolf

A habit is first a wanderer, then a guest, and finally the boss. — Hungarian Proverb

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Chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. — Samuel Johnson

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Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain

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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them. — Benjamin Franklin

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