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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.
insightful patterns changed
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. David Sedaris
insightful quality pay
Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays. Louis C. K.
insightful interviews encounters
Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter. David Duchovny
insightful may harder
The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false. Charlie Munger
insightful riches frugality
Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality. Benjamin Franklin
insightful use valuable
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?' Brian Tracy
insightful dave standing
Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on. Dave Ramsey
insightful investing
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. John Maynard Keynes
insightful contentment exhausted
Contentment is a wealth that is never exhausted Ali ibn Abi Talib