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• "No talent, but yet a character. [Ger., Kein talent, doch ein Charakter.]"
  By: Heinrich Heine, Atta Troll (caput 24)
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• "I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day."
  By: Heinrich Heine
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• "Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety."
  By: William Hazlitt (1), Lectures on the English Comic Writers--On Wit and Humour
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• "He were n't no saint--but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing-- And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men."
  By: John Hay, Jim Bludso
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• "Those with whom we can apparently become well acquainted in a few moments are generally the most difficult to rightly know and to understand."
  By: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• "A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents, it is not created by external advantages, it is no necessary appendage of birth, wealth, talents or station; but it is the result of one's own endeavors."
  By: Joel Hawes
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• "In all our reasonings concerning men we must lay it down as a maxim that the greater part are moulded by circumstances."
  By: Robert Hall
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• "Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man."
  By: Mrs. Sarah Josepha (Buell) Hale
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• "Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other."
  By: Sir Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Lord Brooke
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• "Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."
  By: Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 12)
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• "A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity."
  By: John Bartholomew Gough
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• "Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (l. 37)
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• "Our Garrick;s a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree."
  By: Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (l. 11)
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• "What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (II, 3, 199)
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• "Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (I, 2, 66)
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• "I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III)
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