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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it.


Horace Mann

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Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
HORACE MANN Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it
HORACE MANN Habit is a cable; we spin a thread of it every day and at last we can not break it.
UNKNOWN How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielde...
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will ...
GEORGE ELIOT It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond...
HORACE MANN The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us ...
MARCEL PROUST If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?
LEE STRASBERG Live every day as if it were your last. Spend your life hanging by a thread. Accept that you can fal...
FRANCO SANTORO We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
PROVERB Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
PROVERB Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
GERMAN PROVERB I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH From auto, property and life insurance to retirement annuities, Horace Mann is dedicated to helping ...
DOUG REYNOLDS We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.
VOLTAIRE For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.
BARBARA JORDAN We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
MAX DE PREE We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
ADOLFO AGUILAR ZINSER 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We share a bond. We do everything together. We have a piece of strong, invisible thread connecting u...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
DOLLY PARTON We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE We cannot gamble with American lives. I will not gamble with American lives.
JOHN F. KELLY We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
EAMON DE VALERA We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute ...
ANON. Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute ...
ANONYMOUS Break a bad habit -- drop it
SOURCE UNKNOWN To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions ...
HORACE MANN How to live life;If we live each day as if it will be our very last,one day we will be absolutely co...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each da...
HUGO CLAUS Each day i wake and think at last this nightmare is over. But it never is.
SUZANNE COLLINS Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we...
BLAISE PASCAL For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of oth...
ARTHUR HAYS SULZBERGER We aren't feeling sorry for ourselves -- we play hard every day. But the last couple of weeks have b...
BRANDON INGE The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions we feel expand it, those t...
MARCEL PROUST a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I envision a day where we have complete convergence between cable, satellite and the Internet.
HARVEY SEEGERS Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until...
CATHERINE MCAULEY We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
XAVIER BECERRA We cannot both preach and administer financial matters.
SAINT STEPHEN We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
DOROTHY DAY We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.
DAVID PETRAEUS We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our respon...
JOSIAH STAMP The reconnection of society, economy and ethics is a project we cannot postpone.
MICHAEL D. HIGGINS We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it.
LEO AIKMAN Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.
MARGE PIERCY We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the nex...
PAUL AUSTER The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, th...
MARCEL PROUST We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.
JODI RELL I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Line up a group of Horace Mann students, interview them, and take a look at their resumes, and you&#...
ELIOT SCHREFER The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN A habit is something a person hardly notices until it is too late to break.
VIKRANT PARSAI Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the ...
STEVE JOBS The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we c...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
CORITA KENT We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the...
PAUL AUSTER People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have to cut that last cable. That's when the rover is really born.
MARK ADLER At this point we have to take it one game at a time, and play each game like its out last.
ANDREW PATTERSON To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN The world is getting smaller and smaller every day. We cannot find ourselves dependent on somebody w...
WAYNE ROGERS Love is a lot of what we need, but not all of it. Inner Peace is all we each need; because without f...
ETTA SAWYERR A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
ANGELA MERKEL We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
ALAN WATTS We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
M. SCOTT PECK We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
MAHMOUD ABBAS We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
BERNARD MELTZER We can learn something from Marxist thinking, but we cannot follow Marxist methods.
SUN YAT-SEN We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
ERIK ERIKSON Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
JEAN PAUL I understand that we cannot make other people happy when they are unhappy.
AUDREY TAUTOU So if you play that out, it's going to be a long time before we can bring a competing option to cons...
BOB ELEK A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread
ROBERT BURTON I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.
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HORACE Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
HORACE Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
HORACE The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor.
HORACE Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.
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HORACE I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.
HORACE One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.
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HORACE Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.
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HORACE It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
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HORACE I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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What sorrow may not heal.
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HORACE Anger is a brief lunacy.
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HORACE A good scare is worth more than good advice.
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HORACE Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.
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HORACE We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.
HORACE Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character.
HORACE Every old poem is sacred.
HORACE Poets wish to profit or to please.
HORACE No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
HORACE The man is either mad, or he is making verses.
HORACE No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.
HORACE A picture is a poem without words.
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HORACE I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
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HORACE We are free to yield to truth.
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HORACE What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
HORACE If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.
HORACE He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
HORACE I teach that all men are mad.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
HORACE He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
HORACE Gold will be slave or master.
HORACE Punishment closely follows guilt as its companion.
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HORACE If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.
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