"Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts."

-- Aristotle

#Character Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of horns similar to his own, and have therefore been formed for the purpose of combating other stags for the exclusive possession of the females; who are observed, like the ladies in the times of chivalry, to attend to the car of the victor. The final cause of this contest amongst the males seems to be, that the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved.”
“When the friends we love the best Lie in their churchyard bed, We must not cry too bitterly Over the happy dead.”

Source : Cecil Frances Alexander (1871). “Hymns for Little Children”, p.43
“I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.”
“My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew”
“[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.”
“In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.”
“Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim the plot that's in thy keeping, Thou wilt bless the task when reaping Sweet labour's prize.”
“It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.”

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