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These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way… — Aristotle
Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than… — Terry Pratchett
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and… — Anais Nin
For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety. — Marcel Proust
Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take… — Libba Bray
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened… — Mortimer Adler
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain… — Graham Greene
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. — Doris Lessing
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious… — Vladimir Nabokov
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of the past, to… — Flannery O'Connor
You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have… — Mark Leyner
He was weeping. Although 'weeping' really is to small a word for the activity the kind had undertaken. Tears were cascading from his eyes. A… — Kate DiCamillo
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my… — Camille Paglia
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for… — Charles Darwin
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with… — W. Somerset Maugham
I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The places we have known do not belong solely to the world of space in which we situate them for our greater convenience. They were… — Marcel Proust
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a… — Abigail Adams
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we… — Derrick Jensen
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the… — Susan B. Anthony
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice… — Michel Foucault
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. — Mahatma Gandhi
A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or… — Desmond Tutu
But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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