"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."

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"It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is."

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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Failures make character, not success."

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"Trials makes you to develop the qualities of a successful man."

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"When a foundation is built following sound structural principles, with solid, high-quality materials, anything that is layered on top is more secure, durable, and resilient. Your integrity works the same way."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Three essential virtues are patient, loyalty and kindness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Instead of trying to be taller than others, stronger than others, more superior to others, try to be gentler than others, more compassionate than others, fairer than others!"

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"If you treat yourself well, you will be good to others."

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"Strive to be a person of character not a person of power."

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"To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet."

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"This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy."

Creativity

"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."

Man

"Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun."

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"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."

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"The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas."

Age

"There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son."

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"Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass."

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"No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require."

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"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."

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