Chains Quote by William Hazlitt

“The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.” quote by William Hazlitt — Download Open image

“The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.”

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

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We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received.

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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

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No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.

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We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it.

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Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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Unchecked, the new tolerance will sooner or later put many people in chains.

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The Chains of conformity click in tiresomely monotonous unison.

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I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

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