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Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
- Prayer
Even the poor should give something to charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Ch. 27In context
- Character
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter VIIn context
- Forgiveness
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heaven’s glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
Emily Brontë1818–1848No Coward Soul Is Mine (1846)In context
- Courage
- Faith
I bring you one of the best and bravest persons on this continent — General Tubman as we call her.
John Brown1800–1859As recalled by Wendell Phillips (letter of 16 June 1868), in Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869)
- Courage
I judge people by what they might be,⁠—not are, nor will be.
Robert Browning1812–1889A Soul’s Tragedy (1846), Act ii.
- Character
When the fight begins within himself,
A man’s worth something.
Robert Browning1812–1889Men and Women (1855), “Bishop Blougram’s Apology”, line 693.
- Character
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet
And master and make crouch beneath his foot,
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Robert Browning1812–1889The Ring and the Book (1868-69), Book X, line 1185
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Giordano Bruno1548–1600Response to his judges on his conviction as a heretic (1600), as reported by Gaspar Schopp in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen
- Courage
- Fear
The humblest citizen of all the land; when clad in the armour of a righteous cause; is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925Cross of Gold (1896)
Character is the entity, the individuality of the person, shining from every window of the soul, either as a beam of purity, or as a clouded ray that betrays the impurity within.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925Address at Illinois College (1881)
- Character
The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.
John Buchan1875–1940Pilgrim’s Way (1940), p. 241
- Character
He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me’⁠—in those who do not harbor such thoughts hatred will cease.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCDhammapada
- Anger
- Forgiveness
Not by birth does one become an outcaste, not by birth does one become a brahman. By one’s action one becomes an outcaste, by one’s action one becomes a brahman.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BCSutta Nipata (Suttas falling down), § 136
- Character