Character Quotes

• "If whole in life, and free from sin, Man needs no Moorish bow, nor dart Nor quiver, carrying death within By poison's art. [Lat., Integer vitae scelerisque purus Non eget Mauris incidis neque arcu Nec venernatis gravida sagittus Fusce pharetra.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (I, 22, 1), (Gladstone's translation)
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• "Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself."
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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• "Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character."
  By: Mark Hopkins
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• "Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against all the might of external nature."
  By: Mark Hopkins
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• "But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. XIX, l. 383), (Pope's translation)
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• "Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 917), (Pope's translation)
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• "Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. IV, l. 372), (Pope's translation)
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• "In death a hero, as in life a friend!"
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (bk. XVII, l. 758), (Pope's translation)
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• "Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Professor at the Breakfast Table (ch. VI)
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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 care most for those flat pattern flowers that press best in the herbarium."
  By: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Professor at the Breakfast Table (ch. III, Iris)
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• "O Dowglas, O Dowglas! Tendir and trewe."
  By: Sir Richard Holland, The Buke of the Howlat (st. XXXI)
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• "Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "I have learned by experience that no man's character can be eventually injured but by his own acts."
  By: Rowland Hill
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• "Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality."
  By: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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• "A man's character is his fate."
  By: Heraclitus of Ephesus, On the Universe (fragment 121), (W.H.S. Jones translation)
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• "Character is destiny."
  By: Heraclitus of Ephesus
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