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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.


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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
STENDHAL (MARIE-HENRI BEYLE) One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
HENRI B. STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
MARIE HENRI BEYLE One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.
STENDHAL One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputatio...
OSCAR WILDE You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude
AUSTIN O'MALLEY One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
OSCAR WILDE One of the features of chess is that chess does not acquire mass character.
ILKIN SANTAK No one can be happy in eternal solitude.
ANNE BRONTë Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I can resist everything except temptation.
OSCAR WILDE One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
GOETHE I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
FRANCOISE SAGAN I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If on...
MAGGIE NELSON Once can survive everything nowadays, except death.
OSCAR WILDE I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
OSCAR WILDE Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
HERBERT M. SHELTON What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
SALMAN RUSHDIE The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it f...
BERNARD DEVOTO Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Education is one of the most valuable and lasting possessions one can acquire.
BARTOLOME QUINTANA Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the wor...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE See everything that you have to acquire wisdom, to acquire that ability to see, picturize and envisi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He...
TIMOTHY DWIGHT Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.
VIKRANT PARSAI Money can buy you everything except a father and a mother.
VIKRANT PARSAI A great man is one that can develop convictions in solitude and carry them out in a crowd.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING One should strongly resent miserliness and indulge in charity because one can acquire the never-endi...
RIG VEDA Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The one with the Strong Character is Satisfied with Everything.
JAN JANSEN The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or...
JOHN BERGER Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to ch...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.
NAPOLEON HILL Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
HAROLD BLOOM Your education is one of the greatest treasures you can ever acquire and something no one can ever t...
SUSAN C. YOUNG The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL ROGERS The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that mu...
CARL R. ROGERS The mind can understand everything except itself. How do I know I understand then?
EPHDAN Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
OSCAR WILDE Women have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.
OSCAR WILDE I think it was Harry Walpole who remarked, "In this life one should try everything once except inces...
STEPHEN FRY Apparently these people did not have the means to acquire those items except through illicit purpose...
MAJ. SUSAN DOWSETT Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
EVAN ESAR Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.
CRISS JAMI Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Last year, everything went great in all aspects except attendance.
AL BRICKER Everything in life has limits... Except God's love for you...
KLEINJAN REDELINGHUYS In Los Angeles, everything is 100% organic, except the people.
KRIS KIDD By enthusiasm one acquire unimaginable strength.
RIG VEDA NO ONE CAN DEFEAT YOU EXCEPT YOUR SELF-IGNORANCE.
SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS He's the man who controls everything, ... He created this character, so if he wants to do another on...
JASON STATHAM Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
EMILE M. CIORAN One Hundred Years of Solitude
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ I know everything except myself
FRANCOIS VILLON Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.
LARS VON TRIER Everything in life takes longer than we think - except life itself.
BENJAMIN E. MAYS Everything in this world is a fake except the word,"FAKE".......
PRABHA No two men can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Being true to oneself is the most personally valuable skill one can acquire, for it leads to genuine...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Through solitude you can pursue your goals and visions in life
SUNDAY ADELAJA Nowhere can a person find greater solitude than alone in flight
WILLIAM LANGEWIESCHE Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
EVAN ESAR Everything was believed except the truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
MARTY RUBIN One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
CARL SANDBURG One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude
CARL SANDBURG Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think h...
ZANE GREY To be functionally fluent in a language, for instance, in most cases you need about 1,200 words. To ...
TIMOTHY FERRISS Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars; under devel...
EDUARDO GALEANO We are all born into the world with nothing. Everything we acquire after that is profit.
SAM EWING In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR There's a remedy for everything except death
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
RUDYARD KIPLING Everything is relative except for the absolute.
DIETER GERUSCHKAT Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the s...
KIRBY PUCKETT One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know eve...
EMILE ZOLA I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
RICHARD STEELE We only acquire companies that put us in a position where we can grow,
WAYNE HUIZENGA Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
OSCAR WILDE We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
OSCAR WILDE To acquire great wealth in life is like someone erecting a one hundred floor building,it takes time ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
JOEY LAUREN ADAMS Self discipline is a right that no one can wrong except yourself.
TURYASINGURA NELSON DERRICK I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help...
JOSEPH PULITZER He's prepared. He's done about everything you can do except sit in the (general manager's) chair. I'...
TERRY RYAN It's a lot less expensive to keep a loyal customer than to go out and acquire a new one.
JOHN NEE We do acquire when we need to complement whatever we've got ... but we aren't one of these companies...
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