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  • In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Rain Quotes , Character Quotes
  • The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Confucius Quotes , Lying Quotes , Character Quotes
  • I'd been concerned all along that the character of the president in the West Wing pilot would throw the ensemble out of whack, that that character would simply take up all the oxygen in a room. I wanted to hold off bringing this character in until the last possible moment.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Aaron Sorkin Quotes , Character Quotes , President Quotes
  • I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.
    • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alan Ball Quotes , Character Quotes , Emotional Quotes
  • Our most valuable teachers are our enemies.While our friends can help us in many ways, only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop tolerance, patience, and compassionthree virtues essential for building character, developing peace of mind, and bringing us true happiness.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Character Quotes
  • Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.
    • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Vices Quotes