"Make it your habit not to be critical about small things."

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This quotation examines the core nature of Character as articulated by Edward Everett Hale. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Character provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, an American Revolutionary War spy.

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"'Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."

— Edward Everett Hale
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"If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough."

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"Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately."

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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

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"Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character."

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"A resilient spirit knows that character is forged in the fires of discipline."

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"We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character."

— Oliver Joseph Lodge
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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."

— Aesop
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