Noblest Quotes
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
F. Sionil Jose -
Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.
Aristotle
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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.
Oscar Wilde -
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
Oscar Wilde -
The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live.
Plato -
The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
Socrates -
The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.
Aristotle
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We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.
Abraham Flexner -
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
Oscar Wilde -
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.
Diogenes -
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
Dante Alighieri -
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
Claudius Claudianus
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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.
Socrates -
They the royal – hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile.
George Eliot -
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
Elizabeth Ann Seton