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Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. – Elihu Burritt	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Every man has three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause as the effect of the division of labour. The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and education. When they came into the world, and for the first six or eight years of their existence, they were perhaps very much alike, and neither their parents nor playfellows could perceive any remarkable difference... – Adam Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever being completely satisfied without present condition, or with our past attainments, and engages us continually in the pursuit of some untried enjoyment, or of some ideal excellence. Destroy this faculty, and the condition of man will become as stationary as that of the brutes. – Dugald Stewart	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When writing a novel a writer should create living people people not characters. A character is a caricature. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. – Euripides	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals. – Henry David Thoreau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. – Oscar Wilde	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. – Saul David Alinsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. – Margaret Halsey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Johnson himself turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a few people left over. – Herbert Mitgang	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. – Flannery O'Connor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. – Elihu Burritt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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