The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the
second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all,
until presently the habit is adopted.--HENRY GILES.
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his
knowledge.--COLTON.
Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the
spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of
tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or
woe.--MRS. SIGOURNEY.
I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.--HOSEA
BALLOU.
HAPPINESS.--He who is good is happy.--HABBINGTON.
If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam:
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home.
--COTTON.
The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the
rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention
would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of
disease and want.--PALEY.
Happiness and virtue react upon each other,--the best are not only the
happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.--LYTTON.
God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they
know not God that think to please Him with making themselves
miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and
lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true
God by wronging himself.
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