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A trip-hammer, with Aeolian attachment. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, of Carlyle, after meeting him Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart. - Ralph Waldo Emerson This is that which we call character,--a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Character is higher than intellect. . . . A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Scholar No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay--On Character Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all; only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. - Euripides A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language. - Edward Everett, Speech--The Youth of Washington It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species. - Henry Fielding We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns. - Henry Fielding The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank Parents can only give good advice or put them [children] on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. - Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, entry of July 15, 1944 A man's character is like his shadow which sometimes follows, and sometimes precedes him, and which is occasionally longer, occasionally shorter than he is. - French Quotations Human improvement is from within outwards. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Divus Caesar Our thoughts and our conduct are our own. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys. - James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects--On Progress (pt. II) Men and brethren, a simple trust in God is the most essential ingredient in moral sublimity of character. - Richard Fuller (1) Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choice of good or evil we have made through life. - John Cunningham Geikie In every deed of mischief, he [Andronicus Comnenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. - Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (vol. IX, p. 94) That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,-- Creation's blot, creation's blank. - Thomas Gibbons, When Jesus Dwelt A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage. - Richard Watson Gilder, At the President's Grave, an epitaph for President Cleveland To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, Time and Place of Homer (introduction) In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is the true test of character, unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life? - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III) Displaying page 5 of 15 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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