Show importance of good habits nia ala malth Maith babee mavee abeen n said is a 0 habits and habit is second nature entertained so strong an 0 opinion inton as a 9 to the power of repetition enact in act and na thought that he be said all is habit in mankind even virtue itself I 1 butler in his anal anai Analog 0 yf 2 I 1 im impresses res ses the imi m I 1 porta nce of calef careful u self seif discipline line fine and hirn firn firmie r e si stance to temptation aa tending to tb make snake virtue habitual so thad thae that at length it maybe may be come more easy to be good than to give way to 0 sin As habits belonging be to the body he says are produced acts so habits of the mind are produced by the execution of inward prad practical ical purposes i e carrying them into act or acting upon them the principles of obedience obed lence veracity justice and charity and again lord brougham says when enforcing the immense importance of training and example in youth 1 I trust everything under god to ambats ambits habit on which in all ages the lawgiver as well as the schoolmaster has mainly placed his reliance habit which makes everything easy and casts the difficulties upon 1 the deviation from a wonted course ay th thus thug Rs make sobriety a habit and intemperance will be hateful make prudence a habit and reckless profligacy will become revolting to every principle of conduct which re regulates 0 blates the life of the individual hence the necessity for the greatest care and watchfulness against the inroad of any evil habit for the character is always weak iest jest est at that point at which it has once given way and it is long before a principle restored c can an become so firm as one that has never been moved it ia is a fine remark of a russian writer that habits are a necklace of 0 pearls untie the knot and the tho whole un threads 1 wherever formed habit acts acta involuntarily and without 1 effort and it is ls only when you yo oppose 0 it that you xou ou find how hoi powerful NI it ila lla has become what whap is done once and again soon gives facility an and proneness the habit at first may seem to have no more strength than a spiders web but once formed it binds as with a chain of iron the small events of I 1 fe taken s singly in g I 1 y may seem exceedingly unimportant like snow that falls silently flake by flake yet accumulated these snow flakes form the avalanche self respect self help application industry integrity all are of the nature of habits not beliefs principles in fact are but the names which we assign assin assi n to habits for the principles are words gut but the habits ahre are the things themselves benefactors or tyrants according as they are good or evil it thus happens that as we grow older a portion of our free activity and individuality becomes suspended in ha habit bit I 1 our actions become of the nature of fate and we are bound by the chains which we have woven around ourselves samuel smiles |