“Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.”

— John Ross Macduff

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.

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Scottish religious writer 1818–1895

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