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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.


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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim,...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
STEPHEN RICHARDS I don't like good habits. They strike me as being so easily broken.
LINNEA GELLAND Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily crack'd and never well mended.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.
ALAN PATON All the habits of Man are evil.
GEORGE ORWELL Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantag...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantag...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
DANISH PROVERB Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits
ROBERT PULLER Cops aren't really your friends, they are trying to be your friends but they are not....

DEYTH BANGER They are so frail humans. So easily crumpled and broken, like flower petals under foot.
JENNIFER MELZER People are more easily led than driven.
DAVID HAROLD FINK A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
IAN MCEWAN Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories, they are ha...
JOHN DEWEY Attitudes are nothing more than habits of thoughts, and habits can be acquired. An action repeated b...
PAUL MYER Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
DEMOCRITUS They may not change your skins colour; they may not change your body odour; but once they can change...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more season...
JENNIFER GRANHOLM You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Confessed faults are half-mended.
SCOTTISH PROVERB Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
MARLENE DIETRICH Today there are close to 30 million U.S. households, or one in four consumers, spending more than th...
CHRIS VIALE Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the ear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS You are more effective when you confront.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something...
COURTNEY SUMMERS Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
HOLBROOK JACKSON Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
HOLBROOK JACKSON Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.
CASSANDRA CLARE The 21st century is a complex and unforeseeable epoch. Our thinking habits and our values, which unt...
HAYAO MIYAZAKI Vices are often habits rather than passions
ANTOINE RIVAROL Vices are often habits rather than passions.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding
HARVEY MACKAY More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas goo...
LARS VON TRIER It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are b...
IAN LUSTICK Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their a...
CRISS JAMI The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid....
TED NAIFEH Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they ’re ended.
COLLEY CIBBER In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are bro...
REBECAH MCMANUS Consumers can boost their organization quotient more easily than they realize. There are many hidden...
DOUG KRIEGER I believe that more than ever before there are evil forces round about us,
ANITA BRYANT Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
ELLEN GLASGOW Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
RICHARD WHATELY People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the p...
IAN K. SMITH That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.
CRAIG FERGUSON Promises are meant to be kept, for they are like precious pearls in an ocean, their value is high an...
UNKNOWN The best place to live is that one where your friends are.
DANIEL MELGAçO Once people got themselves settled, they turned to thinking about art that was not safe, either from...
BETSY BRADLEY Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
FANNY CROSBY A fault is sooner found than mended.
ULPIAN FULWELL The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news...
PLEASEFINDTHIS Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And o...
SIMONE WEIL We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.
BERTRAND RUSSELL Once the dust of volcanic love has settled and the harshness of a new reality has become oppressive,...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, b...
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well ...
DEYTH BANGER My eyes were closed, they're open now
DAMIEN RICE His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING People are like pistachios. Some of them open up easily, but there are others who need to be really ...
RVM It was a cheap shot. They could have quite easily broken my neck.
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.
DRISHTI BABLANI, WORDIONS Habits are hard to let go, especially if they are human beings.
WORDIONS Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.
RAYMOND CHANDLER As the series has gone on, the guys have settled down. We've been the underdogs the whole time. They...
DAN JANCEVSKI I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure what...
ISAAC WATTS I'll not willingly offend, Nor be easily offended; What's amiss I'll strive to mend, And endure wha...
ISAAC WATTS I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself t...
MARGARET MITCHELL They are more to me than life, these voices, they are more than motherliness and more than fear; the...
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Start from where you are. Empower yourself. Adjust habits. Triumph over those habits -- this is how ...
NANCY S. MURE In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequent...
AUDRE LORDE Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
JAMES THURBER Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.
ERIC MABIUS She wanted to be herself at all costs.
KIERA CASS Having same bad habits can get you more close to each other than having similar good habits.
SUPERNA BATHEJA There are worse things than a broken leg.
DJIBRIL CISSE I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL When you have the strength to stand up for yourself ,the ones you love and the dignity and honor to ...
GARY F EVANS... We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted...
JOHN GREEN When you come up against any type of bullies whether it be physical or psychological they all look f...
GARY F EVANS... When all are talking, no one is probably listening; but if no one is speaking then perhaps all are o...
ANUJ SOMANY Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Ar...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When you confront, you are more result oriented.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy ha...
MARK HYMAN They are more complimentary than they are doubling-up.
BEN BUSSEY Where I've come from, I've heard trash talking before. Once we settled down, once we caught a couple...
DEON BUTLER Human Rights Watch should have, perhaps, directed it's concern to international institutions respons...
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