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• "In other respects the best fellow in the world. [Fr., Au demeurant, le meilleur fils du monde.]"
  By: Clement Marot, Letter to Francis I
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• "Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is--more knave than fool."
  By: Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta (act II, sc. 3)
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• "Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts."
  By: Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
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• "Our character is our will; for what we will we are."
  By: Henry Edward Manning
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• "Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are done, are done."
  By: Douglas Malloch, East and West
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• "Should any man tell you that a mountain had changed its place, you are at liberty to doubt it if you think fit; but if any one tells you that a man has changed his character, do not believe it."
  By: Mahomet II, the Great
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• "Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending notes of music which constitute the man."
  By: John MacDuff
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• "And the chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings
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• "We hardly know of any instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other."
  By: Thomas Babington Macaulay, Frederick the Great
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• "Who knows nothing base, Fears nothing known."
  By: Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), A Great Man (st. 8)
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• "There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta, and every man a brick."
  By: Lycurgus, according to Plutarch
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• "The mask is torn off, while the reality remains. [Lat., Eripitur persona, manet res.]"
  By: Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus), De Rerum Natura (III, 58)
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• "For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhip in Jenooary."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Courtin'
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• "Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 7, l. 119)
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• "Our Pilgrim stock wuz pethed with hardihood."
  By: James Russell Lowell, The Biglow Papers (second series, no. 6, l. 38)
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• "A nature wise With finding in itself the types of all,-- With watching from the dim verge of the time What things to be are visible in the gleams Thrown forward on them from the luminous past,-- Wise with the history of its own frail heart, With reverence and sorrow, and with love, Broad as the world, for freedom and for man."
  By: James Russell Lowell, Prometheus (l. 216)
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