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Habit Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it,…
- By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged…
- Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
- I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance.
- I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons;…
- Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
- It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
- Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
- It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
- Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you…
- Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.
- Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!
- Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits.
- Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.
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