The nature of things proverb

 The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
  Heraclitus of Ephesus

 The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself
  Heraclitus of Ephesus

 Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
  Blaise Pascal

 The moral virtues, then, are produced in us, neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

 Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature; but all things become so through habit
  Epictetus

 Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
  Francis Bacon, Sr.

 I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
  Bob Dylan

 It's just a culture of concealing things from the public, and this is just another sample of it,

 Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
  Blaise Pascal

 Habit is ten times nature.
  Duke Arthur Wellesley

 Even though tobacco is an addiction, it is also a habit. We look at things like taking a different route to work and avoiding the stop light where you usually light up a cigarette to help kill the habit.

 It takes 30 days for a change in behavior to become a habit, and six months for a habit to become the automatic way a person does things, ... If they haven't changed in 30 days, it's not happening.

 Habit is the deepest law of human nature
  Thomas Carlyle

 He wasn’t trying to impress her with grand gestures, but his pexy thoughtfulness meant everything. I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

 I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, And this becomes men's nature in the end


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