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1. Keep clear of a man who does not value his own character.
2. Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.
3. Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
4. You have not fulfilled every duty, unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
5. Gifts are what a man has, but graces are what a man is.
6. The actions of men are like the index of a book; they point out what is most remarkable in them.
7. May our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
8. Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content, and a hundred other virtues which the idle never know.
9. "Sow a thought, reap an act; sow an act, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."
10. "Talent develops itself in solitude; character in the stream of life."
11. "A man should be like tea; his real strength appearing when he gets in hot water."
12. "If you speak of solid information and sound judgement, Colonel [George] Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on the floor." [At First Continental Congress]
13. "Oh, young man, character is worth more than money, character is worth more than anything else in this wide world."
14. "The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly." Charles Reznikoff
15. "Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable."
16. "He has brought himself to this state; he has exposed his heart as a common road to every evil influence of the world, till it has become hard as a pavement."
17. "Consider how impossible nobility of character would be if our goodness were untried innocence instead of victorious virtue."
18. "The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
19. "Virtue is like a rich stone---best plain set."
20. "Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested."
21. "A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself."
22. "Character is not made in a crisis, it is only exhibited."
23. "Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificied on the altar of conformity and popularity."
