Noble Quotes
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There are tonalities which are noble and others which are vulgar, harmonies which are calm or consoling, and others which are exciting because of their boldness.
Paul Gauguin
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
Aristotle
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The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
Pythagoras
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She didn’t need to be received as nobility to be noble.
Courtney Milan
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It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
Sophocles
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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.
Albert Einstein
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I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Katharine Tynan
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There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body.
Fauja Singh
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The Egyptian Army is a great patriotic army, The Egyptian Army is a very noble and tough army, and it's toughness comes from it's nobility.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
Julie Kagawa
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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
Aristotle
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I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.
H. L. Mencken
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The noble must make humility his root.
Lao Tzu
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He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
Egerton Brydges
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A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides
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Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.
Heraclitus
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My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!
Charlotte Bronte
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
John Milton
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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.
Kate Horsley
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There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.
Charles Edward Jefferson
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If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Christian D. Larson