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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ce2da5f | O Mrs. Higden, Mrs. Higden, you was a woman and a mother, and a mangler in a million million. | Character | ||
| 90381dc | I know their tricks and their manners. | Character | ||
| fe42d7d | Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. | Character | ||
| 3a205ae | Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. | Character | ||
| b89b54b | Plain without pomp, and rich without a show. | Character | ||
| 4f597e2 | She was and is (what can there more be said?)On earth the first, in heaven the second maid. | Character | ||
| e8b199b | A trip-hammer, with an AEolian attachment. | Character | ||
| 8093f7d | No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. | Character | ||
| d5ba0f1 | Human improvement is from within outwards. | Character | ||
| 3630977 | Our thoughts and our conduct are our own. | Character | ||
| 38d4908 | Weak and beggarly elements. | Character | ||
| 795919b | Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed,Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. | Character | ||
| d3c8084 | O Dowglas, O Dowglas!Tendir and trewe. | Character | ||
| c638511 | In death a hero, as in life a friend! | Character | ||
| 7c4c31d | Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. | Character | ||
| 870a4ec | Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind. | Character | ||
| 3474469 | But he whose inborn worth his acts commend,Of gentle soul, to human race a friend. | Character | ||
| 60acf2b | A Soul of power, a well of lofty ThoughtA chastened Hope that ever points to Heaven. | Character | ||
| 2f18d5b | He was worse than provincial--he was parochial. | Character | ||
| c075397 | Officious, innocent, sincere,Of every friendless name the friend. | Character | ||
| a914c6f | The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute. | Character | ||
| 33e7cc5 | He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. | Character | ||
| 4cece20 | Our Pilgrim stock wuz pethed with hardihood. | Character | ||
| 9b3893d | Soft-heartedness, in times like these,Shows sof'ness in the upper story. | Character | ||
| 0a05f94 | Endurance is the crowning quality,And patience all the passion of great hearts. | Character | ||
| 2498557 | It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. | Character | ||
| 54de168 | There thou beholdest the walls of Sparta, and every man a brick. | Character | ||
| f6fb24b | And, but herself, admits no parallel. | Character | ||
| 16ee019 | Who knows nothing base,Fears nothing known. | Character | ||
| b6e0bc9 | Good at a fight, but better at a play;Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay. | Character | ||
| 1c0ef81 | Good-humor only teaches charms to last,Still makes new conquests and maintains the past. | Character | ||
| c86aa65 | Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child. | Character | ||
| 98bb42c | So much his courage and his mercy strive,He wounds to cure, and conquers to forgive. | Character | ||
| 6331e41 | Devout yet cheerful, active yet resigned. | Character | ||
| b82abb1 | Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. | Character | ||
| 8fe5ff8 | There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil. | Character | ||
| b88b9d3 | Worth, courage, honor, these indeedYour sustenance and birthright are. | Character | ||
| cd25697 | His own character is the arbiter of every one's fortune. | Character | ||
| 6ebc400 | A man should endeavor to be as pliant as a reed, yet as hard as cedar-wood. | Character | ||
| 24b0bfb | The hearts that dare are quick to feel;The hands that wound are soft to heal. | Character | ||
| e338343 | Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. | Character | ||
| 522758e | And one man is as good as another--and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said. | Character | ||
| cc0b3c0 | None but himself can be his parallel. | Character | ||
| 0415890 | Just men, by whom impartial laws were given,And saints, who taught and led the way to heaven! | Character |