Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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In the life of children there are two very clear cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
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Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.
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Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
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It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
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Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
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Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in.
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
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Habits.. The only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction.. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.
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Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
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I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..
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Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny.
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