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Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character (Sockman Ralph W.)
Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. (Sockman Ralph W.)
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles. (Sockman Ralph W.)
For character too is a process and an unfolding... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protuberant there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations? (Sockman Ralph W.)
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. (Sockman Ralph W.)
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Do what you know and perception is converted into character. (Sockman Ralph W.)
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing. (Sockman Ralph W.)
One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Character is not made in a crisis -- it is only exhibited. (Sockman Ralph W.)
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Human improvement is from within outward. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. (Sockman Ralph W.)
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. (Sockman Ralph W.)
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