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"Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature."
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Personal Development
"The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion."
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Personal Development
"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."
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"It is better to be gentle than rude."
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Personal Development
"Developing a true and solid character and finding unique traits that belong to only you is a foundational thing."
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Personal Development
"The kindest mind is the most beautiful mind!"
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Personal Development
"Character that is fruit-producing can be summed up in the mastery of these 5 qualities: morals, but a sense of humor; love, but respect for criticism; intelligence without pretense; humility without self-loathing; and a mind open, but with solid convictions."
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"Be the type of man a wife would cherish and a child would admire."
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Personal Development
"Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call 'humble' nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody.Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.If you do dislike him it will be because you feel a little envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He will not be thinking about humility: he will not be thinking about himself at all."
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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
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"Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines."
Church
"I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment."
Colors
"To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing."
Thought
"I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle."
Society
"Question everything."
Question
"It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good."
Woman
"I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
Inspirational
"The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study."
Habit
"The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not."
Life
"I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men."
Men
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