Native Character Set

Famous quotes containing the words native, character and/or set:

    “I never see that man without feeling that he is one to become personally attach’d to, for his combination of purest, heartiest tenderness, and native western form of manliness.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza;—read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The dreariest spot in all the land
    To Death they set apart;
    With scanty grace from Nature’s hand,
    And none from that of Art.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)