Laozi Quotes, Character Quotes, Reality Quotes

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial; they abide with realities, they do not remain with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

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

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Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

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The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Character Quotes , Firsts Quotes

That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

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Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

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We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency - clear disinterested thinking and fearless action

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Character Quotes

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.

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When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.

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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

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

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Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Character Quotes , Night Quotes

A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.

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I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.

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Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

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She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Interesting Quotes

Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth, in respect of her ability to be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral in an instant, but would sometimes ring the changes backwards and forwards on all possible moods and flights in one short quarter of an hour; performing, as it were, a kind of triple bob major on the peal of instruments in the female belfry, with a skilfulness and rapidity of execution that astonished all who heard her.

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

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