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• It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

  Criss Jami

  Responsibility, Knows

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.68, Criss Jami

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• I knew, deep down, that love, though a beautiful beginning, isn't enough. It's the practice of honoring and caring for another that's noble, not the emotion of love itself. The emotion is the easy part.

  Megan McCafferty

  Beautiful, Caring, Practice

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.139, Broadway Books

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• Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.

  Willard Gaylin

  Quality, Guilt, Essentials

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• If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!

  Pierre Daninos

  Dog, Believe, Animal

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• He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

  Khalil Gibran

  Accomplish

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• place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Children, Real

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• You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Envy, Overcoming, Influence

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

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• I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled.

  H. M. Tomlinson

  Sea, Sound, Looks

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• Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gold, Affliction, Clay

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• From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.

  Hugo Black

  Men, Law, Justice

  "Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 18, 1963.

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• Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Selfish, Philosophical, Vanity

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• There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

  William Ralph Inge

  Country, Military, May

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• Ego is vital but not noble.

  Kedar Joshi

  Ego, Morality, Virtue

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Moving, Mean

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• If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Jobs, Tasks

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• A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Grace, Soul, Triumph

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.3732, Delphi Classics

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• People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Pride, People, Achievement

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• The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Army, Causes, Argument

  Speech in the House of Commons, April, 1844.

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• The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Temptation, Too Much, Testing

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• Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.

  Horace

  Leader, Soul, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 524-25, Carmina, IV. 8, 1922.

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• Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

  Horace

  Wealth, Descent, United

  "Satires", II. 5. 8, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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• In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

  George Eliot

  Vengeance, Scorn

  GEORGE ELIOT (1868). “THE SPANISH GYPSY”, p.249

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• Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Deeds, Soil, Doing Your Best

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soul, Nobility, Knows

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