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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another.
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).
One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.
Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.
I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.
Women are, I think, moved by the idea that self-sacrifice is noble and can be the source of great joy.
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty.
Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.
I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
Actors really are the scum of the earth. Their behavior makes overpaid rock stars look positively noble.
Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.
For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.
To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.
'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?
If I could help educate our children at an institution for higher learning, that would be a noble thing.
It's the great deception in modern culture: Bad things call for noble names to cloak their evil outcomes.
Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful.
Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.
New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.
It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.
I think that is a noble goal that all of us should seek, to end wars and prevent wars as much as possible.
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.
The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
Of what use are pedigrees, or to be thought of noble blood, or the display of family portraits, O Ponticus?
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough.