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Character-building as an art

Lessons
On the outlook for wisdom
By sifting through the compressed maxims given you could come up with neat guidelines fit for yourself.
On this and the next page there are various, assorted utterances from many minds. Various outlooks were sifted, brought together and arranged in a way that is tidy and fairly easy to learn.
The advanced systemic outlook underneath the 'tables' below, encompasses four differing modes of logic in one unified and systemic web. It makes more beneficient things easy to master. What you have to do, then, is keeping it up.

Preface
Chapter 1: Building Character

Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout:

Preface

Handy lessons, their place and value in time

"Does this lead from home to Rome? Or does it build character? It is often best to know in advance."

On this and the next page there are various, assorted utterances from many minds. Various outlooks were sifted, brought together and arranged so that you can learn from them in a handy way. And living up to the good things you come across, can be done if your conditions are good for it.
A saying: "Words don't come easy". Another saying: "The way from thought to proper, fit action may be long and arduous." Even so, good and beneficient things in life may come easier by strategic steps and good layout. Roads may be well designed and levelled out to much benefit. Thus: clever thinking may help some, and clever thoughts brought into a system to train oneself by, may help even better. Yet it depends. Much depends on you, where you are and those you are among, however. They say a friend along the road helps too.
If you select a 'bundle' of our bon mots (nice-looking words) to exercise your mind and fare by, you should be aware that many such sayings could contradict each other. In short: There may be many roads to Rome, but not all are equally smart to travel.
In the long run variegated thoughts on this and that may give rise to different schools of thinking and handling stuff later. They can also foster many self-contradictory beliefs we should steer out of.
How to deal with things like these here, at the starting-point? Merge the sayings that apparently work best for you, and do it so well that you make no blunders in trying to live up to the tenets you form too.
The main point is: Our brand new semi-cybernetics (called tick tack toe solvency building at times) allows you to sift according to taste or need and 'tank up' much to think about and apply what seems best fit for you yourself.
The advanced systemic outlook underneath each 'table essays' below, encompasses four differing modes of logic in one unified and systemic web, actually. They are described here: [Click]
Many statements below were sifted and "tailored" to the scheme underneath the surveys. Work to get it cosy and learn to take care of and handle your various assets well. We hope you enjoy those vital parts of life's training, where "The neat example crowns the sermon."

Chapter 1: Building Character

Character breeding may be like horse training at times

THREE novel dao verses below speak of how to breed others and not yourself - The verses are composed of titbits from the phrases of many a bigwig, and these very cand dao verses should not be used as an excuse to become a drop-out and shirk one's good schooling - far from it. Fragments can be knit and halfway woven together. As you can see, the end result is not theirs, and maybe not wholly mine either. I use the others. When I write ['With someone] this is indicated. There can be more than two great names attached to these knit sayings. In many places straight quotes pop up too. If not, the effort have been done to shorten some, straighten others, and give much sensible lore, all in all. Feel welcome to browse and use with tact, if you like.
The verses are separated by a dot "old gold". Each verse supplies thinking that in the end - if well schooled and carefully geared, one way or another, could lead into welcoming arms - and from there on you might need professionals to sort out things for you - as needs tend to become much specialised "out there".

The solid character stems from things accepted far and wide

A man's old, solid character could look like his maturing successes

THERE IS no such thing as a "self-made" man, maestro or bungler. We are made up of thousands of others that entered into the make-up of our character, deeds and thoughts, well - even some of our success. [With George Matthew Adams]

A man's character is like his guardian divinity. [With Heraclitus]

Character is what you are in the dark. [Dwight Moody] ¤

Who can't fight back, is turned into a sort of gift in the hands of others. Beware of that, of what goes lost through character building deep inside!

A GREAT and noble character is for others to use. Feel free to make a gift of yourself. Unschooled good character can be for that, all in all. And how few know it -

Two good hints of a person's basic and not totally dormant character can be (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good in return, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. [With Abigail Van Buren] (#1.3)

The master-smith is not the most interesting to be around

If great character is all there is left of you, hold on to it like the master smith of our fairy tales, and things could go well

A MAN'S reputation is what other people think of him; his character looks like what he really is. [With Jack Miner]

At times a person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. [With G. C. Lichtenberg]

Before you advise anyone "Be yourself!" reassess his character. [Unknown]

Man's character can breed his fate. It's no good getting outsmarted. [With Heraclitus]

Good character is often more outstanding than outstanding talent. Talents are to some extent looked on as gifts. Good character, on the other hand, is hardly given. It depends in part on good choice, courage and determination along with temperament, and firmness comes in between. [With John Luther]

Feel free to make the most of yourself, if that is all there is of you. [With Ralph Waldo Emerson (a joke)]

Do what you know, and perception can be converted into character as time goes by. [With Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Character may be looked at as the long-range sum of a person's favourite choices or preferences, if you like. [With P. B. Fitzwater]

Few superficial people can distinguish the genuinely good from the other. [With Ava Gardner and Juvenal]

Great character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. [With Jacqueline Bisset]

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. Have that fear. [With John Atkinson]

An original can be hard to find and easy to recognize till he learns the blessings of good conformity and taking shelter one way or another. [With John Mason]

The measure of a man's real character is at times what he would do if his mother-in-law appears unforeseen for long. You are not very good on your own if not far better than your best friends imagine. [With Thomas B. Macaulay and Johann Kaspar Lavater]

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. [Faith Baldwin]

It could be that between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. [With Walter Lippmann]

Character development is one deep-going aim of good education. [With O'Shea]

Character is the result of two things: Mental attitude and the way we spend our time. [Elbert Hubbard]

There is perhaps no better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose. [With William M. Bulger]

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character… [Stephen R. Covey]

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. [Henry Clay]

Much modern "character" is basically an outgrowth of sallow education, its' not deep and hardy at all. ¤

There is good breeding of character, bad breeding and all the others.

All should live so that nobody may readily believe transgressors. [With Plato]

Building character looks ruthless: it eliminates weak ones. [With Darrell Royal]

The many often attack the one with hate and fury and their sharp weapons. But if he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and exposed to the winds and beaten against by tidal waves, he laughs inside at all that stuff. [With Virgil] ¤

Many so-called essential characteristics of a man happen to dwindle or get uninteresting as decades run by

MAYBE old age, sickness and rotten eggs bring out the essential characteristics of a man. [With Felix Frankfurter] (#2.1)

Family-fit or family-served popularity goes a long way toward building of characters

Maybe there is nothing like well deserved popularity in the family kept uncramped and steady at that

GOOD CHARACTER made use of by others down into steady continuance, may get worse than a large family. [With Charles H. Parkhurst and Henry David Thoreau]

My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman unless he was the chauffeur. [Earl of Arran] ¤

Appropriate character is not always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed for the sake of good conformity and deserved popularity.

The good you show up much and make use of, may not remain with you all along - but perhaps your dark, hidden sides can and will some time

YOU CAN regulate your life by standards you look up to when at your best. [With John M. Thomas] ¤

Watch your thoughts; or they become Frank Outlaw's if you're not careful, but emotional. [On top of Frank Outlaw]

It's regrettable that what most common men consider laughable, can be of Dao, says Lao-zi somewhere

IT CAN be sort of handy that brute men fairly regularly show their character by what they think laughable, agreeable and regrettable. [With William James and Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe] ¤ (#3.1)

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