For habit is within its subject like a second nature; wherefore it is pleasant to act from habit.
What is customary becomes pleasant, in so far as it becomes natural: because custom is like a second nature.
Hence the heat of a hectic fever, though greater, is nevertheless not felt so much as the heat of tertian fever; because the heat of the hectic fever is habitual and like a second nature.
It is not the untrained and the inexperienced who are able to be naïve and fresh in art, but only the master to whom technical excellence has become a second nature.
The mind should be trained by these severe and careful methods until exactness of expression becomes a second nature.
Put selling skill, as second nature, into each word, tone, and action of your social and business life.
The master salesman practices the scientific principles and methods he has learned until the skillful use of his knowledge in every-day selling becomes second nature to him.
When you comprehend, and employ as second nature, the usages of the finest sales art, your success in life, like that of the master professional salesman, will be certain.
Do you perform friendly acts of consideration for others on every occasion, as second nature?
The childlike, natural way to learn a language is to absorb it into the system, almost without effort, until it becomes a part of second nature--in much the same way that we absorb tunes.
As regards consideration for others, with the constant help and guidance and example of a devoted mother, this can be made to grow and thrive, too, until it becomes a beautiful and sensitive part of second nature.
He wore a suit of black broadcloth, with a white cravat and gloves, and his natural ringlets were arranged with that habitual regard to order and neatness which was with him a second nature.
Valentine arose with the same heavy heart that had marked his waking hours for many days, yet dressed himself and combed his raven black curls with the habitual regard to neatness and beauty that had become a second nature.
Principles, we say, which have become a second nature and of which we are not explicitly conscious.
Explain the proverbs: "Habit is ten times nature," "Habit is second nature.
In this sense the proverb is significant that habit is called a second nature, and that man is a creature of habit.
This arrogant power, the enemy of reason, who likes to rule and dominate it, has established in man a second nature to show how all-powerful she is.
I am much afraid that nature is itself only a first custom, as custom is a second nature.
Not the least; they are both tittering and giggling merrily; they are accustomed to it, and habit is second nature.
His mind elevated to the highest degree of intelligence, his heart bent constantly to love what is good, he has almost assumed a second nature, and he lives upon earth a purely spiritual life.
I like to see the well-bred man, to whom the details of social life have become a second nature.
There is, nevertheless, a best naturalness, or second nature, and a worst.
Maturer years and the search for wisdom had steadied his restless daring; and his devotion to duty, always remarkable, had become a second nature.
Had they been burdened with the constant acknowledgment of superior authority which becomes a second nature to the regular soldier, disgust and discontent might have taken the place of high spirit and good-will.
Cultivate this habit of concentration if you would succeed in business; make it a second nature.
The principles then adopted and the habits then formed, whether good or bad, become a kind of second nature, fixed and permanent.
Man, it has been said, is a bundle of habits, and habit is a second nature.
And habit is second nature, or, as an old Lyndsey proverb goes, "There's nowt like eels for eeliness.
Pollie's arm had been a kind of second nature to me; but Mrs Bowater, I think, had almost as fastidious a disinclination to carrying me as I have to being carried.
And whether or not it is because early custom is second nature, she is still the only person whom my skin does not a little creep against when necessity calls for a beast of burden.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "second nature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
