Saint Augustine Quotes, Character Quotes, Order Quotes

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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Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Drama Quotes , Character Quotes

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.

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

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.

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Tags : A. Powell Davies Quotes , Heart Quotes , Character Quotes

Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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

I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Strong Quotes , Character Quotes

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

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To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving.

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Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .

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The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

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

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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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Reflection Quotes

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.

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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

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

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Should Quotes

Character is that which can do without success.

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

There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

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

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