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• "The two most precious things this side the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "It was observed of Elizabeth that she was weak herself, but chose wise counsellors; to which it was replied, that to choose wise counsellors was, in a prince, the highest wisdom."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it."
  By: Charles Caleb Colton
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• "In numbers warmly pure, and sweetly strong."
  By: William Collins, Ode to Simplicity
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• "How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed."
  By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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• "I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character."
  By: John Duke Coleridge, F.R.S.
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• "What was said of Cinna might well be applied to him. He [Hampden] had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a hand to execute, any mischief."
  By: Lord Clarendon, Edward Hyde, History of the Rebellion (vol. III, bk. VII)
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• "As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes. [Lat., Ut ignis aquam conjectus, continuo restinguitur et refrigeratur, sic refervens falsum crimen in purissimam et castissimam vitam collatum, statim concidit et extinguitur.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comaedo (VI)
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• "But a perverse temper and fretful disposition make any state of life unhappy. [Lat., Importunitas autem, et inhumanitas omni aetati molesta est.]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Senectute (III)
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• "The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an Earldom."
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Character of Pulleney
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• "You must look into people as well as at them."
  By: 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope
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• "He was a verray perfight gentil knight."
  By: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 72)
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• "The great hope of society is individual character."
  By: William Ellery Channing
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• "Every one is as God made him, and often a great deal worse. [Sp., Cada uno es come Dios le hijo, y aun peor muchas vezes.]"
  By: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (XI, 5) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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