#qualities

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

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Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

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Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it. ↗

— Guru Nanak

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Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. ↗

— Plutarch

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

— Lyman Abbott

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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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Love... Force it and it disappears. You cannot will love, nor even control it. You can only guide its expression. It comes or it goes according to those qualities in life that invite it or deny its presence. ↗

— David Seabury

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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