Tryon Edwards - Habit Quotes

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit : and habit allowed, steadily gains in strength. — At first it may be but as the spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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Thoughts lead on to purposes ; puposes go forth in actions ; actions form habits ; habits decide character ; and character fixes our destiny.

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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second ; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny. – As Lessing says, 'Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.'

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