Abraham Lincoln Quotes, Business Quotes, Character Quotes

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character Quotes

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Character Quotes , Mirrors Quotes

The magnanimous know very well that they who give time, or money, or shelter, to the stranger--so it be done for love, and not forostentation--do, as it were, put God under obligation to them, so perfect are the compensations of the universe.

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

The expression of a man's face is commonly a help to his thoughts, or glossary on his speech; but the countenance of Newman Noggs, in his ordinary moods, was a problem which no stretch of ingenuity could solve.

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My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.

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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

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The palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says they signify character. The philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close upon.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Wrinkles Quotes

After tea, we discussed a variety of topics before the fire; and Mrs. Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of "The Dashing White Sergeant", and "Little Tafflin".

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

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But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

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Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

Watch your habits, they determine your character.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

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All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.

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