“ There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read A, B, C may read our natures. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
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“ Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree. ”
- Peter Gay- Copy
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“ Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. ”
- Johan Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ”
- Alphonse Karr- Copy
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“ Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians. ”
- Henry George Bohn- Copy
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“ He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. ”
- Plato- Copy
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“ Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. ”
- Frank Muir- Copy
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“ One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822. ”
- Stendhal- Copy
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“ I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe I'd have more character. ”
- Jerry Hall- Copy
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“ Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. ”
- David Seabury- Copy
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“ Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the "correspondence" through which we may know our boundless selves. ”
- Kathleen Raine- Copy
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“ Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ The seal went into the restaurant and was asked by the waiter if he would like a Canadian Club on the rocks. He replied no thank you. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Character - a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods — moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former — but no opinion. ”
- Hannah Arendt- Copy
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