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Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?
It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
I am not always good and noble. I am the hero of this story, but I have my off moments.
Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.
It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.
Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.
Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
I don't know of a more noble, a bigger deal as a filmmaker than to be a YouTube filmmaker.
[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.
Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.
One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.
Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.
Teaching, the most noble profession, should be rewarded based on merit alone, not seniority.
If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.
If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.
Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.
The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.
Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.
I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.
I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.
A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.
No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.
Of every noble work the silent part is best; of all expression, that which cannot be expressed.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one’s noble conduct (al-murû`ah).
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.