Amelia B. Edwards Quotes
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
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I've played a lot of characters who are creeps or weirdos, with a deep darkness underneath the surface.
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Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
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Ninoy Aquino was a friend; I knew his faults, which were outweighed by his virtues.
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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... freshness trembles beneath the surface of Everyday, a joy perpetual to all who catch its opal lights beneath the dust of habit.
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"Human resources are like natural resources; they're often buried deep You have to go looking for them; they're not just lying around on the surface You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves"
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I think all of us have our inner 13-year-old a lot closer to the surface than we're willing to admit even to ourselves.
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
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Courage is the first virtue that makes all other virtues possible.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.
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They lack suggestive power. And when a book lacks suggestive power, however hard it hits the surface of the mind it cannot penetrate within.
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There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
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One is punished best for one's virtues.
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It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.
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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
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Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
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I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am.
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All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.
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The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
