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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Judge The Character of a Man

Judge The Character of a Man




There are assured works which are, as it were, the collective, the sum total, of a large number of smaller works. If we stand near the seashore and hear the waves dashing against the shingle, we think it is such a great noise; and yet we Know that one wave is really poised of millions and millions of minute waves, Each one of these is making a noise, and yet we do not catch it; it is only when they become the big aggregate that we hear. Similarly, every pulsation of the heart is work; certain kinds of work we feel and they become tangible to us; they are, at the same time, the aggregate of a number of small works. If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Every hoodwink may become a hero at one time or another. Those are indeed the thing which will tell you the real character of a great man. Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose temperament is great always, the same wherever he is.

Omniscient Men The Falling of an Apple

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