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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
selfishness never-forget forget
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Bill Walton
selfishness luxurious
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.] Juvenal
selfishness degrees bigs
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Aristotle
selfishness
Selfishness has never been admired. C. S. Lewis
selfishness may cold
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. E. W. Howe
selfishness continuity day-to-day
I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me. Albert Camus
selfishness slippery-slope firsts
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. Anne Campbell
selfishness today serious
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Dalai Lama
selfishness sin bases
The basis of all sin is selfishness. David O. McKay
heroic life poems writers-and-writing
Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem. John Milton
heroic languages word
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Eugene Debs
heroic
I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. Nicholas Winton
heroic accommodations situation
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. Alan Furst
heroic admire englishmen
Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure Anne Fadiman
heroic movies reason whereas
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Oscar Isaac
heroic lay life response situation training
The lay person doesn't have that training so their response to a life-threatening situation isn't always the same or as heroic as you would like it to be.
heroic hours trumpets
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Benjamin Cardozo
heroic reaching struggle
reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle. Nelson Mandela