Shining outward qualities, ...

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

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Amores Perros and Once Were Warriors had a tremendous visceral quality that really influenced me.
 Brendan Fletcher
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
 Miyamoto Musashi
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.