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- In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
- Madame Swetchine
- Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both
- Author Unknown
- The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Self-trust is the essence of heroism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- 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 he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity
- John Ballantine Gough
- A man's character is his guardian divinity.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
- Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
- John Howe
- Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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