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Quote 3646
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3635
How I like to be liked, and what a dear curse is the inability to be popular!by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3630
The human species is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3627
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3626
The manly man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never for himself.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3622
Character is what a man really is, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3617
Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3615
Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3613
Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3596
Whoso would deserve well of his fellows in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3594
No, it is mine, cried the lame one, for I ran off with the ring.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3593
No, indeed, cried the mouse with the cropped ears; the credit is mine.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3578
But I cannot help doing this great wrong toward Man, that I make myself credulous.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3576
This is why we ought not to do evil that good may come; for at any rate this great evil has come, that we have done evil and are made wicked thereby.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3550
In so vast a drama, my dear friend, my personality does not count.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3546
I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3545
I can really only thank you for your too flattering letter, inspired by our old friendship.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3532
I wish you to be attired as befits your rank and beauty.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3530
Say yes or no without fear.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3529
I have no fear, no matter how fast you go.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3509
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3508
The credulous man is father to the liar and the cheat.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3506
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3504
The plain intention of an honest man.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3501
They were barbarians and wreckers.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3497
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3494
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3493
You can control nothing but your own mind.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3472
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3470
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3460
My heart is worth more than that of a vile mortal who dwells in your towns.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3447
In brief, I am averse from nothing: my conscience would give me the lie if I should absolutely detest or hate any essence but the devil; or so at least abhor anything, but that we might come to composition.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3437
The most galling of yokes is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3428
As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3413
He that attends to his interior self, That has a heart and keeps it, has a mind That hungers and supplies it; and who seeks A social, not a dissipated life.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3404
Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3402
Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3401
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3400
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3396
I shall be very glad to make plain in this discourse the paths I have followed, and to picture my life so that all may judge of it, and by the setting forth of their opinions may furnish me with yet other means of improvement.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3394
The greatest minds, as they are capable of the highest excellences, are open likewise to the greatest aberrations.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3390
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3377
I cannot admit that they are living the good life.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3375
Civilization should be something added to this, not substituted for it,Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3366
I am he whom you may see any afternoon sitting by himself and musing in D'Argenson's seat.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3362
My thoughts,—these are the wantons for me.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3355
He is one of a crowd, a taxpayer, an elector, an anonymity, but not a man.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3354
The gentleman, then, is the man who is master of himself, who respects himself, and makes others respect him.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3353
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions, such a man is a mere article of the world’s furniture.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3346
He who violates another's honor loses his own.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3344
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3340
Beware the fury of a patient man!by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3325
It was simply that she could not go away.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3306
Make it not any longer a matter of dispute or discourse, what are the signs and proprieties of a good man, but really and actually to be such.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3304
The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3295
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3291
We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3290
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3279
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity, that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3275
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3254
I am large, I contain multitudes.by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3253
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself,by: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3248
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3246
Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3239
A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3237
To feel much for others and little for ourselves constitutes the perfection of human nature.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3228
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest Offices; so climbing is performed in the same Posture with creeping.by: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3227
Censure is the tax a man pays to the publick for being eminent.by: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3226
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice, when they will not so much as take warning?by: Jonathan SwiftShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3200
The envious may die, but envy never.by: MoliereShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3189
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things.by: EpiktetShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3180
No arguments will give courage to the coward.by: AesopShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3179
The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.by: AesopShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3164
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3163
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3160
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 3159
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3109
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3066
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within usShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3052
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficultiesShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3046
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's selfShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3035
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3009
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 3006
Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religionby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2976
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercyShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 2975
In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammerShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2953
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicityShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2926
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwardsby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2918
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 2907
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2884
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth muchShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2878
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorumShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2860
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resentsShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 2850
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.Showing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2805
The vices of some men are magnificentby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
Quote 2804
Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strengthby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2780
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwardsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2778
When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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Quote 2777
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilisby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Personality and character
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