Ill habits gather by unseen degrees —
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.


Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, The Worship of Aesculapius (1700), line 155-156.


Ill habits gather by unseen degrees — As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees — As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees — As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees — As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.