Small habits well pursued ...

Small habits well pursued betimes, may reach the dignity of crime.
Small habits well pursued betimes, may reach the dignity of crime.
 Hannah More

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
 Bashar al-Assad
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
 Ori Hofmekler
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley

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It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
 Hannah More
Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
 Hannah More
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.
 Hannah More
How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!
 Hannah More
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
 Hannah More