We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Quote by John Dryden

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And every little absence is an...

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it...

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may...

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

All heiresses are beautiful

All heiresses are beautiful

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

All heiresses are beautiful.

All heiresses are beautiful.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount...

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times...

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times...

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us...

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us...

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason