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• Virtue alone is true nobility.

  William Gifford

  Virtue

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works: In 9 Volumes. ... containing Underwoods, translations, &c. Discoveries. English grammar. Jonsonus viribus”, p.72

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• There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

  James Anthony Froude

  Epidemics, Disease, Wells

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.18, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

  Euripides

  Women, Reflection, Form

  "Ion". Play by Euripides, circa 421-408 BCE.

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• And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Profound, Aristocracy

  "Notebooks".

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• Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Noble, Faithfulness, Fidelity

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• The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.

  Claudius Claudianus

  Character, Pride

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 559-60, De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris, 305, 1922.

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• If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

  Boethius

  Avoiding, Ifs

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 559-560, 1922.

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• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ideas, Body, Filthy

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 6, 1799.

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

  Sophocles

  Men, Dies

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• There is dignity in suffering; nobility in pain; but failure is a salted wound, that burns and burns again!

  Woody Allen

  Wise, Pain, Suffering

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• Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  Walter Scott

  Names, Tyrants, Nurse

  Walter Scott (2001). “Ivanhoe”, p.109, Classic Books Company

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• Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Rights, Careers

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.45, Beacon Press

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• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

  Theodore Roethke

  Positive, Positivity, Odds

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.341, Anchor

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• I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

  Homer

  Lying, Winning, Dust

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• I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

  John Lasseter

  Believe, Pride, Two

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• It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Pride, Suffering, Quality

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• There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Two, World, May

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• There's no nobility in poverty.

  Jordan Belfort

  Poverty

  Jordan Belfort (2007). “The Wolf of Wall Street”, p.97, Bantam

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• Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• An honest man's the noblest work of God.

  Alexander Pope

  Honesty, Character, Men

  An Essay on Man Epistle 4, l. 248 (1734)

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• If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

  Matthew Simpson

  Men, Titles, Honest

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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

  Noble, Lord, Resources

  Sir Egerton Brydges (1834). “The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart”, p.47

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• A noble pair of brothers.
  [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

  Horace

  Brother, Noble, Pairs

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