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“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

Suffering Turns Fall Wind Habit Balls Great Men Exception Strings Slips Rooted Lapses New Habits Winding Up

Book:The Heart of William James

Source: The Heart of William James

“the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.”

Past Behinds Mistake Cutting Doors Acceptance Wind Habit Invaluable Past Mistakes

Book:Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

Source: Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...

“Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.”

World Might Sports Wind Fool Habit Paradise Broads Bulls Indulgence Pardon Hood Rags Beads Limbo

Author:John Milton

“Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by and large, a shifty crew, sunk in distortion, misrepresentation, illusion, imposture, fakery.”

Memories Wind Habit Illusion Invention Observation Crew Imaginative Distortion Bad Habits Misrepresentation

Book:Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing

Source: Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character: And Other Essays on Writing

“It is well to be informed about the winds, About the variations in the sky, The native traits and habits of the place, What each locale permits, and what denies.”

Wells Sky Land Wind Habit Deny Native Permit Traits Variation

Author:Virgil

“I hope I need not confess that a large part of my stock in trade consists of platitudes rescued from the cobwebbed shelves of yesterday... This borrowing and refurbishing of shop-worn goods, as a matter of fact, is the invariable habit of traders in ideas, at all times and everywhere. It is not, however, that all the conceivable human notions have been thought out; it is simply, to be quite honest, that the sort of men who volunteer to think out new ones seldom, if ever, have wind enough for a full day's work.”

Source: In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality

“O God, when my faith gets overladen with dust, blow it clean with the wind of your Spirit. When my habits of obedience get stiff and rusty, anoint them with the oil of your Spirit. Restore the enthusiasm of my first love for you.”

Firsts Spirit Wind Habit Clean Blow Oil Enthusiasm Dust Obedience First Love

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there." ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel”

Men Stills Enough Gone Changed Wind Habit Abuse Windmills

Author:Victor Hugo