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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.”

Years Might Time Liberty Worst Habit Vicious Discarded Quit Smoking Good Habits Year One

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones.”

Ifs Men Mind Ideas Whole Principles Subjects Habit Deeper Whole Life Impression Virtuous New Ideas Vicious Assured Barren

Book:Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

Source: Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life

“Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid them, though he were sure they would be always concealed both from God and man, and had no future punishment entailed upon them.”

Men Humans Persons Reason Would Be Human Nature Habit Punishment Vicious Concealed Stains

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.”

Individual Practice Habit Demon Vicious Degrading

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The Balopticon [a machine that projects photos on canvas to trace the lines] is an evil, inartistic, habit-forming, lazy and vicious machine! It also is a useful, time-saving, practical and helpful one. I use one often-and am thoroughly ashamed of it. I hide it whenever I hear people coming.”

People Use Evil Lines Habit Projects Machines Practicals Saving Ashamed Lazy Helpful Canvas Vicious

Author:Norman Rockwell

“For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.”

People Years Quality Virtue Influence Honest Habit Increase Relation Vices Defects Vicious Inconvenience Honest People Inconstancy

Author:Suzanne Curchod

“Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.”

Ifs Looks May Littles Moral Habit Higher Infinite Improvement Atmosphere Over It Toil Vicious Mist Ascending

Book:Fruits of leisure: Essays written in the intervals of business

Source: Fruits of leisure: Essays written in the intervals of business

“Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty, of most that are young and of many old, are wasted. Here diseases, vicious habits, bastards and legislators are frequently spawned.”

Country Young Revolution Habit Disease Towns Observation Dozen Modesty Vicious American Revolution Legislators Taverns

Author:John Adams

“There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.”

Pleasure Habit Equal Conquest Vicious

Book:The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul

Source: The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul

“Kali yuga is so much saturated with vicious habits that there is a great fight at the slightest of misunderstanding.”

Fighting Habit Vicious Misunderstanding Saturated Kali Kali Yuga

Author:Radhanath Swami