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I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.
I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.
Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?
The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.
The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.
My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.
Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.
We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.
The 'freedom agenda' of George W. Bush's second inaugural was a noble concept - but in practice, it offered ignoble results.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble goal.
Leadership involves building an esprit de corps, the creation of a sense of purpose in pursuit of noble and clear objectives.
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
I've decided, because we have a short time here, that those of us that create joy and happiness, that's a really noble thing.
I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the next generation.
I'll put everything I have in my capacity at the service of the noble cause and noble values of the U.N. and the U.N. Charter.
How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company.
The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.