Noble Quotes
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Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
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Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.
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I was in the category of people who thought that his Bernie Sanders campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary Clinton to the left.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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But for those that are equal to have an unequal share and those that are alike an unlike share is contrary to nature, and nothing contrary to nature is noble.
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I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
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There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well.
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What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.
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I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.
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I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
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I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?
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There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . . .
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Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation, And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
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Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice.
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A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.
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The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God’s name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.
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A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.
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The noble must make humility his root.
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It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.
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If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
