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Character is what can do without success

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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new powe...more

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Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he sta...more

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We acquire the strength we have overcome.

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Character is that which can do without success.

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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

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No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

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Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until he has learned to use that little better. What a h...more

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Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting ...more

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Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances a hundred things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

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The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your...more

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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.