"Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ... All human happiness and misery take the form of action."

-- Aristotle

#Character Quotes #Giving Quotes #Quality Quotes

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1989). “The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans”
“His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought.”
“We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.”

Source : W H Auden (1981). “Antæus”, Ecco Press
“Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.”

Source : George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.231
“Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.”
“Writers, because they write, are condemned never to be readers of their own stories...The memory of first putting a story into words will always prevent writers from reading their work as an ordinary reader would.”
“He who gives you the diameter of your knowledge,presc ribes the circumference of your activities.”
“Strain your brain more than your eye.”

Source : Akela Reason, Thomas Eakins (2010). “Thomas Eakins and the Uses of History”, p.93, University of Pennsylvania Press

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