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“Character, simply stated, is doing what you say you’re going to do.”
“During the whole time consumed in the slow growth of this family tree, the house of Smallweed, always early to go out and late to marry, has strengthened itself in its practical character, has disc...”
“I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss.”
“Church is not meant to be fun. It's meant to be formative.”
“You can like an immoral character because she’s interesting, not because you want to have her over for dinner.”
“You can’t build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed,”
“The inner struggle against one’s own weaknesses is the central drama of life.”
“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evi...”
“Be a peacemaker but never at the expense of your character or God’s standards.”
“A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only through our senses, that is to say, he remains opaque, offers a dead weight which our sensibilities...”
“You can never go wrong by doing what’s right.”
“If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.”
“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.”
“The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent conc...”
“It's curious that people go wrong so often between inferiority complex and self-confidence. Pitiful isn't it?”
“Count your years and you'll be ashamed to be wanting and working for exactly the same things as you wanted when you were a boy. Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults...”
“• you should improve your character, because it's belong to your destiny ♥”
“Consider meekness as a character trait to develop and then you will leave a leagcy as a leader who influenced and touched lives.”
“You fight your superficiality, you shallowness, as as to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untank-like as you can be, sans cannon and ...”
“With all due disrespect...”
