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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both

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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

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I dote on his very absence.

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

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Self-trust is the essence of heroism

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Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

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