H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Life Quotes, Character Quotes

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

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The supreme blossoming of character lies (or reside) in renounciation (or renuncement) and abnegation of self ("abnégation de soi", Fr.)

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Character Quotes

We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

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So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

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Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

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

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Character Quotes

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

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Tags : Akhenaton Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

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

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Civilization Quotes

SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as... the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Religious Quotes , Character Quotes

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Art Quotes , Character Quotes

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Giving Up Quotes , Character Quotes

If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes

The virtue you would like to have, assume it is already yours, appropriate it, enter into the part and live the character just as the great actor is absorbed in... the part he plays.

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

It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Girl 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

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Truth Quotes , Character Quotes