The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 20
Habits
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Habits.
Our habits are the strongest power that bind us, in many minds much stronger than convictions; when firmly fixed, convictions cannot act directly upon them and uproot them; when bad and pernicious, nothing can effectually change bad habits but the substitution of good ones, thus the physical lays at the basis of all permanent moral and spiritual reform.