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Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

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The guilty catch themselves.

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Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

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Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

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If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

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