Edwin Percy Whipple
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Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into selfconscious men.
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning ; it judges, but it is not judgment; it imagines, but it is not imagination ; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.
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God is glorified, not by our groans, but Our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.
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Mirth is always changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, most earnest humor.