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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

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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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There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

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The character of a people may be ruined by charity.

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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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Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility? The ocean is everywhere the same, but it has no character until seen with the shore or the ship.

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

Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this, it is clear that the young must be directed to music and must be educated in it.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Soul Quotes

A good character carries with it the highest power of causing a thing to be believed.

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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

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

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In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

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Those who are ashamed of what they ought not to be ashamed; and are not ashamed of what they ought to be - such men, embracing erroneous views, enter the woeful path.

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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

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Two things control man's character; Strength and Pity

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Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow.

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