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“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.”

Ifs Giving Hands Forget Habit Speech Excitement If I Could Lasting Never Forget Sincerity I Have Learned Bad Habits

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“What you learn from bad habits and in bad society you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you.”

Forget Example Habit Lasting Never Forget Bad Habits

Author:John Bartholomew Gough

“We have the bad habit, some of us, of looking back to a time - almost any time will do - when society was stable and orderly, family ties stronger and deeper, love more lasting and faithful, and so on. Let me be your Cassandra prophesying after the fact, and a long study of the documents in the case: it was never true, that is, no truer than it is now.”

Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings

“Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.”

Ifs Growth Natural Quality Practice Grace Habit Lasting Charming

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”

Wells Children Long Real Self Lines Views Achieve Danger Possibility Habit Discipline Safe Transformation Permanent Firm Internals Lasting Excess Self Discipline Frustrating Recalcitrant

Author:Mary Blakely

“You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.”

Love Should Tears Emotional Habit Majors Acquire Lasting Cigar Hurrying Lasting Love Cuban Cigars

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“Education has no more serious responsibility than the making of adequate provision for enjoyment of recreative leisure not only for the sake of immediate health, but for the sake of its lasting effect upon the habits of the mind.”

Mind Responsibility Effects Serious Habit Sake Enjoyment Lasting Leisure Adequate Provision

Author:John Dewey

“When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.”

Ifs Trying Years Remember Results Effort Habit Behavior Twenties Patient Starting Thirty Forty Lasting Take Time Be Patient Trying To Change Old Habits

Author:Darren Hardy