Native Character Set

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

    When my outward action doth demonstrate
    The native act and figure of my heart
    In compliment extern, ‘tis not long after
    But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
    For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)

    God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)