Horace Quotes, Character Quotes, Lasts Quotes

Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.

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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected himself unto laws.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Self Quotes

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Character Quotes , Perfection Quotes

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Party Quotes , Character Quotes

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Character Quotes , Yankees Quotes

There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Personality Quotes

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

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Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

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Tags : Adam Ross Quotes , Character Quotes , Trying Quotes

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Character Quotes

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Character Quotes

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Ambition Quotes , Character Quotes