Quotes 501 till 520 of 527.
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Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves, let me forget about today until tomorrow.
Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
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With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease - because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses.
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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
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Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him...
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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
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You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jelly beans.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
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You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
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You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
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You must never seem to affect the character in which you have a mind to shine. Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Letters (1892) -
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it.
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A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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