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Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.
Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.
There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Education is such a noble profession, it's a wonderful way to serve.
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.
In right and service to their noble country.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced.
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.