CHARACTER
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When wealth is lost, nothing is lost;
When health is lost, something is lost;
When character is lost, all is lost!—Anonymous
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.—H. W. BEECHER, Life Thoughts
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Character must be kept bright, as well as clean.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
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Those who deserve a good character, ought to have the satisfaction of knowing that they have it, both as a reward and as an encouragement.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
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It's not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them—the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.—DOSTOYEVS KY, The Insulted and the Injured
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Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell.—DRYDEN, The Hind & the Panther
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His courage foes, his friends his truth proclaim.—DRYDEN, Absalom & Achitophel
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Character gives splendor to youth and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
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A character is like an acrostic—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.EMERSON, Essays
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Character is higher than intellect.—EMERSON, Nature
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Human character evermore publishes itself. The most fugitive deed and word, the intimated purpose, expresses character.—EMERSON, Essays
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Character is that which can do without success.—EMERSON
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We must have a weak spot or two in a character before we can love it much. People that do not laugh or cry, or take more of anything than is good for them, or use anything but dictionary-words, are admirable subjects for biographies. But we don't always care most for those flat pattern-flowers that press best in the herbarium.—O. W. HOLMES, The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
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He has the luck to be unhampered by either character, or conviction, or social position; so that Liberalism is the easiest thing in the world for him.—IBSEN, The League of Youth
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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.—WILLIAM JAMES, Psychology
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Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.—LINCOLN
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Character is what you are in the dark.—DWIGHT L. MOODY, Sermons
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Character is much easier kept than recovered.—THOMAS PAINE, The Crisis
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The most glorious exploits do not furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men; sometimes a matter of less moment, an expression or a jest, informs us better of their characters and inclinations than the most famous sieges, the greatest armaments, or the bloodiest battles whatsoever.—PLUTARCH, Lives
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Though the wolf may lose his teeth, he never loses his inclinations.—Proverb
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His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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A man never shows his own character so plainly as by the way he portrays another's.—J. P. RICHTER, Titan
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Character is the governing element of life, and is above genius.—FREDERICK SAUNDERS, Stray Leaves
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See thou character.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
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There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.—SOLON, Diogenes Laertius
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Fame is what you have taken,
Character's what you give;
Whet, to this truth you waken,
Then you begin to live.—BAYARD TAYLOR, Improvisations
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How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?—THOREAU, Journal
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I am as bad as the worst, but thank God I am as good as the best.—WALT WHITMAN
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Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.—WOODROW WILSON
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