Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Writing Quotes, Character Quotes

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

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That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

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No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character.

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful.

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There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

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Success is the best builder of character.

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The road to gooď is the roughest and steepest in the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

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A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.

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

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

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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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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind, if she have not resolution enough to resist idle interference ... It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable; everybody may sway it. Let those who would be happy be firm.

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It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

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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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Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.

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You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.

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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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