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• "A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity."
  By: Sir Walter Scott
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• "Common natures pay with what they do, noble ones with what they are. [Ger., Gemeine Naturen Zahlen mit dem, was wie thun, edle mit dem, was sie sind.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Unterschied der Stande
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• "They [the present generation] are like rats crawling about the club of Hercules. [Ger., Da krabbeln sie num, wie die Ratten auf der Keule des Hercules.]"
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Die Rauber (I, 2)
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• "Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong."
  By: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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• "There is in every man a certain feeling that he has been what he is from all eternity, and by no means become such in time."
  By: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
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• "It is of the utmost importance that a nation should have a correct standard by which to weigh the character of its rulers."
  By: John Russell (1), Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford (3rd Volume) (introduction)
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• "A man is known to his dog by the smell, to his tailor by the coat, to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God."
  By: John Ruskin
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• "Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, Was never minde did minde his grace, That ever thought the travell long, But eies and eares and ev'ry thought Were with his sweete perfections caught."
  By: Matthew Roydon, An Elegie--On the Death of Sir Philip Sidney
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• "Devout yet cheerful, active yet resigned."
  By: Samuel Rogers, Pleasures of Memory
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• "A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's. [Ger., Nie zeichnet der Mensch den eignen Charakter scharfer als in seiner Manier, einen Fremden zu zeichnen.]"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Titan (zykel 110)
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• "Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "It is a common error, of which a wise man will beware, to measure the worth of our neighbor by his conduct towards ourselves. How many rich souls might we not rejoice in the knowledge of, were it not for our pride!"
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "Individuality is everywhere to be guarded and honored as the root of all good."
  By: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul)
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• "For when the one great scorer comes To write against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, But how you played the game."
  By: Grantland Rice
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• "He that sweareth Till no man trust him. He that lieth Till no man believe him; He that borroweth Till no man will lend to him; Let him go where No man knoweth him."
  By: Hugh Rhodes, Cautions
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• "So much his courage and his mercy strive, He wounds to cure, and conquers to forgive."
  By: Matthew Prior, Ode in Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode II)
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