To my mind, he builded better than he knew and the real worth of his character developed slowly.
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Ruth Putnam-Quoted in the New York Times, June 16, 1895William the Silent
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The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.
Will Durant
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. (22 August 1944)
Eleanor Roosevelt
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly … very slowly.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception, every intense production of art, ideas, and spiritual values has occurred in some locality where a remarkable degree of economic activity was also manifest.
Paul Valery
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