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Habit . An evil habit is easily subdued in the beginning, but when it becomes inveterate it gains strength. - Malum nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum {Cicero.}
Habit . Cunning signifies especially a habit or gift of over-reaching, accompanied with enjoyment and a sense of superiority. {Ruskin.}
Habit . Duty by habit is to pleasure turn'd; / He is content who to obey has learn'd. {Sir E. Brydges.}
Habit . Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good. {Ben. Franklin.}
Habit . Every vicious habit and chronic disease communicates itself by descent, and by purity of birth the entire system of the human body and soul may be gradually elevated, or by recklessness of birth degraded, until there shall be as much difference between the well-bred and ill-bred human creature (whatever pains be taken with their education) as between a wolf-hound and the vilest mongrel cur. {Ruskin.}
Habit . Friendship, unlike love, which is weakened by fruition, grows up, thrives, and increases by enjoyment; and being of itself spiritual, the soul is reformed by the habit of it. {Montaigne.}
Habit . Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. - Magna est vis consuetudinis: hæc ferre laborem, contemnere vulnus et dolorem docet {Cicero.}
Habit . Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world. {Carlyle.}
Habit . Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best {Kincaid.}
Habit . Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. {Horace Mann.}
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