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“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“We don't usually start out with a plot that we can pitch in two lines. We spend a year brainstorming and discussing ideas that are sometimes of a visual nature, sometimes just about characters and then we try to structure the story.”

Trying Years Two Ideas Sometimes Character Stories Nature Lines Structure Visuals Plot Discussing Brainstorming

Author:Joachim Trier

“A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”

“Character is something each one of us must build for himself, out of the laws of God and nature, the examples of others, and - most of all - out of the trials and errors of daily life. Character is the total of thousands of small daily strivings to live up to the best that is in us. Character is the final decision to reject whatever is demeaning to oneself or to others and with confidence and honest to choose the right.”

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Author:Arthur Trudeau

“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.”

Character Nature New York Birth Creating Jew Lenses Neurotic Creating Characters

Author:Len Wein

“The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.”

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Author:Rachel Carson

“The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.”

Believe Character Light Belief Wish Nature Change Mass Charity Noble Generosity Generous Judged Wholeness Ardent

Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.”

Ifs Humans Moments Character Nature Change Human Nature Changed I Realized Life Changing That Moment Anything Is Possible

Book:You Can Get There From here

Source: You Can Get There From here

“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.”

Source: Critique of pure reason

“Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man's creation, our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it. But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part, our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature's record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.”

Source: A complete guide to the Lakes, comprising minute directions for the tourist, with mr. Wordsworth's Description of the scenery of the country, &c. and Three letters upon the geology of the Lake district, by prof. Sedgwick