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

Quote by John Dryden

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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise...

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise...

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

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...

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is...

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

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...

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

To die is landing on some distant shore.

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...

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

They that possess the prince possess the laws.

All heiresses are beautiful

All heiresses are beautiful

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

For, Heaven be thank'd, we live in such an age, when no man dies for...

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to...

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.