Jane Austen Quotes, Character Quotes, Pride Quotes

I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

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It is the duty of men to judge men only by their actions. Our faculties furnish us with no means of arriving at the motive, the character, the secret self. We call the tree good from its fruits, and the man, from his works.

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

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Trial. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless characters of judges, advocates and jurors.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Character Quotes , Judging Quotes

The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

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Tags : African Spir Quotes , Character Quotes , Independent Quotes

Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Sound Quotes

A skillful commander is not overbearing. A skillful fighter does not become angry. A skillful conqueror does not compete with people. One who is skillful in using men puts himself below them. This is called the strength to use men. This is called matching Heaven, The highest principle of old.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on.

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

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Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , Purpose Quotes

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they're sincere?

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Character Quotes , Circles Quotes

Those who assume a character which does not belong to them, only make themselves ridiculous.

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Tags : Aesop Quotes , Character Quotes , Doe Quotes

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

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Tags : Aaron Gillespie Quotes , Character Quotes , People Quotes

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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Life Quotes , Character Quotes

There are as many characters in men As there are shapes in nature.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Humility 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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One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Character Quotes , Firsts Quotes

An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a book of fate: the bill of the bird, the skull of the snake, determines tyrannically its limits.

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