#qualities

The highest qualities of character... must be earned. ↗

— Lyman Abbott

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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL. ↗

— Ron Jaworski

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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

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I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex. ↗

— Callie Khouri

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Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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