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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Ears, Politics

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• This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

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• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

  James Martineau

  Past, Mind, World

  "Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses".

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• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  John Sterling

  Strong, Pain, Joy

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Quality, Genius, Innocence

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

  Charles Kingsley

  Dream, Long

  'A Farewell' (1858)

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• 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.

  Pat Oliphant

  Journalism, Knows, Carrie

  "'Oliphant's Anthem' Exhibition Commemorates Cartoonist's Work". Interview with Harry Katz, www.loc.gov. October 20 and 21, 1997.

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• One of our most noble political tasks is to open up trust.

  Gustav Heinemann

  Political, Tasks

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• We thank thee for this opportunity to show our love for these heroes who have accomplished such wonders for the beloved United States, which was founded by noble and inspired men.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Hero, Opportunity, Men

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• The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

  Albert J. Nock

  School, Goes On, Useful Knowledge

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• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

  George Sand

  Kings, Earth, Sand

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  Jack Miller

  Uplifting, Lying, Example

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• A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  People, Nobility, Persons

  "Torquato Tasso". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 1, 1790.

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• No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

  Sophocles

  Speech, Stains

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• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Power, Way

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• It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  John Ruskin

  Important, Literature, Architecture

  John Ruskin, Frederick William Roe (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.

  Olive Schreiner

  Peace, War, World

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• Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

  Tecumseh

  Song, Native American, Great Day

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Literature, Village

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.72, Graphic Arts Books

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• When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Book, Reading, Inspire

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• The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Military, Future, Deeds

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press

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• That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Numbers, Literature

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

  John James Audubon

  Forests, Trouble, Retiring

  John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Better not to be at all Than not to be noble.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nobility

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.635, Delphi Classics

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