Famous quotes containing the words character and/or set:
“No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavouring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
“But at the coming of the King of Heaven
All’s set at six and seven:
We wallow in our sin;
Christ cannot finde a chamber in the inn.”
—Unknown. Yet if His Majesty, Our Sovereign Lord (l. 25–28)
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