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It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.
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It is only habit and routine that makes the void look like purpose.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most habits are tools to help us through life.
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
Habit. Often mistaken for love.
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
It may serve for a great lesson of humiliation to mankind to behold the habits and passions of men trampling over interest, friendship, honour, and their own personal safety, as well as that of their country.
Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.
Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.