Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm
Mary BaloghTag: character
Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character
Novala TakemotoTag: character
I have a deep-down belief that there are folks in the world who are good through and through, and others who came in mean and will go out mean. It's like coffee. Once it's roasted, it all looks brown. Until you pour hot water on it and see what comes out. Folks get into hot water, you see what comes out.
Nancy E. TurnerTag: evil good character hardship mean
We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.
William ShakespeareTag: humanity mankind angels character perfection flaws frailty falliability
A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded.
It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.
Tag: character personality
Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.
Janet GoodfriendTag: art school social environment fiction literary character motherhood community best green cape-cod book-club debut heist martha-s-vineyard must-read
They would not find me changed from him they knew — Only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert FrostCavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.
'I like that idea. It's reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can't, after all, go so far afield as we might,' he hesitated, 'yes, as we might.'
Eastman looked at him sourly. 'Cavenaugh, when you've practiced law in New York for twelve years, you find that people can't go far in any direction, except-' He thrust his forefinger sharply at the floor.'Even in that direction, few people can do anything out of the ordinary. Our range is limited. Skip a few baths, and we become personally objectionable. The slightest carelessness can rot a man's integrity or give him ptomaine poisoning. We keep up only be incessant cleansing operations, of mind and body. What we call character, is held together by all sorts of tacks and strings and glue. ("Consequences")
Tag: integrity decadence secrets corruption character decline
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Wahiduddin KhanTag: character differences
Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergTag: strength opinions character peace-of-mind critical-thinking
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