Quotation added by staff

Why not add this quote to your bookmarks?

  ...chief is guilt.--SCHILLER.
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.--SOUTHEY.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for Every guilty person is his own hangman.   --SENECA.
HABIT.--Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.--COWPER.
The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.--G.D. BOARDMAN.
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink drop soileth the pure white page.--HOSEA BALLOU.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will...   Seneca

Excerpt from Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age · This quote is about punishment · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

• Biography
• Fans
• This quote in blogs