Aisha Hinds Quotes, Memories Quotes, Character Quotes

One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.

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And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

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

In times to come people will not judge us by the creed we profess or the label we wear or the slogans we shout, but, by our work, industry, sacrifice, honesty and purity of character.

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Simplicity is the character of the spring of life, costliness becomes its autumn; but a neatness and purity, like that of the snow-drop or lily of the valley, is the peculiar fascination of beauty, to which it lends enchantment, and gives what amiability is to the mind.

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The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

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In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character.

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The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

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

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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

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Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.

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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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The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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Character is plot, plot is character.

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master.He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any.If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

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Character teaches above our wills.

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I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

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I want to be a fighter. So fight for something! Not for money.

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It is only when mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen. If the intellect were always awake, and every noble sentiment, the man might go in huckaback or mats, and his dress would be admired and imitated.

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