T. S. Eliot Quotes, Truth Quotes, Character Quotes

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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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

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

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Nature Quotes , Character 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.

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God's Word is true whether we believe it or not. Human unbelief cannot alter the character of God.

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Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

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I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

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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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Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.

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The State must follow, and not lead, the character and progress of the citizen.

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Character Quotes

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

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But rules cannot substitute for character.

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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath ever moment....One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zsig zag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficent distance and it straightens itslef to the average tendency.

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

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Real Quotes , Character Quotes

The nature of our motivation determines the character of our work.

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