Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Character Quotes

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

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I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Honor Quotes

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

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

The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character.

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Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh.

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Whatever may be his true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution. This is the character of all life and being.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Character Quotes , Being Positive Quotes

"Would you, do you, my dear?" rejoined the Captain ... "I don't know. It's difficult navigation. She's very hard to carry on with, my dear. You never can tell how she'll head, you see. She's full one minute, and round upon you next."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Character Quotes , Division Of Labor Quotes

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don't.

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There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Character Quotes , Secret Quotes

Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Atheist Quotes , Character Quotes

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Winter Quotes

There is the physical mind which is mechanical but the awareness which is the essential character (dharma) of the mind is also to some extent present there.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Character Quotes , Mind Quotes

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

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....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Character Quotes , Greatness Quotes

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

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

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Tags : Al Pacino Quotes , Character Quotes , Play Quotes