Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Character Quotes

How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

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I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

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The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

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Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of great acuteness, a fine scholar, a fine forensic orator, and some master of the brawls has crunched him up in his hands like a bit of paper.

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

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Character Quotes , Order Quotes

So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Every so often you read a play and a character just speaks to you - almost seems to speak through you, in fact.

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Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.

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

It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Taken Quotes , Character Quotes

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Character Quotes

I'm there [on Moana] with the other actors, so you play off one another. It's not just your idea of what the character is and what the world is like it would be in an animated [film], where it all sort of exists in your head. It's all right there, and if Diego's performance is doing what it's doing, it affects yours.

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Motivation Quotes , Character 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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Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Character Quotes , Suffering Quotes

Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Party Quotes , Character Quotes

Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Character Quotes , Joy Quotes

Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point.

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