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It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue… — Charles Spurgeon
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door… — Oswald Chambers
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting… — Victor Cherbuliez
When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when you slip up… — Aldous Huxley
It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it… — Charles Brent
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,… — J C Ryle
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching… — Cesare Pavese
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing… — Lionel Trilling
It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. — Aristotle
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,… — Primo Levi
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. — Jose Marti
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve. — Mary McCarthy
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. — Rebecca West
Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something… — Unknown Author
If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. — Mason Cooley
Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition with other groups.… — Bertrand Russell
the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training. — Thomas Jefferson
I believe that the teacher's place and work in the school is to be interpreted from this same basis. The teacher is not in the… — John Dewey
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena,… — Henry Ward Beecher
So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,… — Charles Darwin
It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit. — William Shakespeare
The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable… — Jons Jacob Berzelius
I always look to see what Arnold [Palmer] shot; it's a habit. We will always compete against each other. — Jack Nicklaus
Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. — Joshua L. Liebman
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits. — Jerome Bruner

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