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"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."

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The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.

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

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Long 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

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy.

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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one. From the code of morals I have been following and revising and revising for 72 years I remember one detail. All my life I have been honest - comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly - I could only lend it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Years Quotes

America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them.

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The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

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I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wine Quotes , Character Quotes

The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich.

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

It's really nice when you can sit down with somebody and just talk to them, and talk about your ideas and what you think the character is, and they respond to it. It's a really nice way to do it, but it doesn't happen very often.

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When the character's right, looks are a greater delight.

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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.

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Tags : Adolf Hitler Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Echoes Quotes

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

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The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

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