A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
习惯
Habit
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.
一个允许自己撒一次谎的人，发现第二次和第三次更容易，直到最后成为习惯。
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
人在很大程度上是一种习惯的动物，他的许多活动或多或少是来自环境刺激的自动反应。
Habit with him was all the test of truth; It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth. To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
他的习惯是对真理的全部考验;这一定是对的:我从年轻时就这样做了。养成一种习惯就是开始停止。
Our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune into them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is going on.
我们的生活就像肥皂剧。我们可以几个月不去关注他们，六个月后我们再去看，同样的事情还在发生。
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
优秀的品德是习惯的结果。我们通过正义的行为变得正义，通过有节制的行为变得有节制，通过勇敢的行为变得勇敢。
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
说话习惯的共同性和连续性是智力缺陷的一种症状。它源于不知道别人在想什么。
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
习惯是必要的;一个人要想活下去，就必须不断地同这种习惯作斗争。
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed.
习惯比理智磨损得更频繁、更猛烈，而在我们最需要理智的时候，却很少有人去公平地考虑它，也很少有人去服从它。
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
如果你想在大事上取得卓越，你就得在小事上养成习惯。优秀也不例外，它是一种普遍的态度。
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
如果没有守时、有序和勤奋的习惯，如果没有一次只专注于一件事的决心，我不可能完成我所完成的事情。
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
人们可能会把习惯称为道德摩擦:一种阻止思维掠过事物，但又将其与之联系起来，使其难以摆脱的东西。
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
人们最初由于所选择的位置而被迫养成了在桩子上盖房子的习惯，后来就像在荷兰一样，人们也把这种习惯作为一种品味来遵循。
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A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
像孩子一样的男人不是发育受阻的人;相反，他给了自己一个继续发展的机会，即使大多数成年人早已将自己包裹在中年习惯和习俗的茧中。
You shape your habits then they shape you for the rest of your life.
你的习惯塑造了你，它们也塑造了你的余生。
Getting into the habit of switching a timer on will, I promise, save you from any number of kitchen disasters.
我保证，养成打开计时器的习惯，会让你免于厨房里的许多灾难。
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
动力是你开始的动力。习惯是你前进的动力。
Things have a habit of working out, you know. Eventually.
你知道，事情总有解决的习惯。最终。