Voltaire Quotes, Character Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing

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Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

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

I am sure, Though you can guess what temperance should be, You know not what it is.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Character Quotes , Should Quotes

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

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What I like doing is being a different person. Every character is kind of different. So being able to be that person and then when you leave you're yourself again. So it's kind of weird to be like two different people, and I think that's kind of fun.

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Tags : Abigail Breslin Quotes , Fun Quotes , Character Quotes

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Character Quotes , Light Quotes

Success is the best builder of character.

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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Character Quotes , May Quotes

It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.

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Tags : Adam Gilchrist Quotes , Team Quotes , Character Quotes

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Character Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Thus it is well to seem merciful, faithful, humane, sincere, religious, and also to be so; but you must have the mind so disposed that when it is needful to be otherwise you may be able to change to the opposite qualities.

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My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

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Tags : Abdellatif Kechiche Quotes , Character Quotes , Black Quotes

I love this quote uttered by the character Widget in The Night Circus. He credits it to Herr Thiessen but knows it is a literary quote by the another author. "Wine is bottled poetry

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Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Wine Quotes , Character Quotes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Book Quotes , Character 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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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Character Quotes , Mean Quotes

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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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Character Quotes , Men Quotes

"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Character Quotes , Boys Quotes

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

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Honesty Quotes , Character Quotes

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Country Quotes , Character Quotes