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• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

  Benito Mussolini

  Military, War, Fighting

  Encyclopedia Italiana "The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism" (1932)

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• Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
  In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
  The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
  To think, without desert of gentle deed
  And noble worth, to be advanced high,
  Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
  Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
  [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

  Carlo Goldoni

  Noble, Bold Actions, Fortune

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• The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Elements, Chess, Flaws

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• In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Order, Two, People

  John Lothrop Motley (1858). “The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes”, p.7

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• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  Camille Paglia

  Change, Beauty, Believe

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.99, Vintage

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• It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Men, Debt

  Epistulae ad Familiares, II, 6, 2, 43 BC.

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• I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

  Imelda Marcos

  Born, Humans, Marie

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem

  Jane Porter

  Virtue, Fine, Settings

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.5

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• Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Rivers, Source

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.191

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• ....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Character, Greatness, Politics

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.93, Penguin

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  Josephus

  Father, Cities, Jerusalem

  Flavius Josephus (1825). “The Works of Josephus--: Containing Twenty Books of the Jewish Antiquities, Seven Books of the Jewish War, and the Life of Josephus”, p.128

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• For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

  James T. Walsh

  Courage, War, Hero

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• Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Children, Humble, Plowing

  Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.108, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• Titles are marks of honest men, and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title lies.

  Edward Young

  Wise, Honesty, Lying

  Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.134

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• Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Unity, Mind, Spurs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1825). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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• The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  People, Sin, Originals

  "The Face of the Third Reich". Book by Joachim Fest, chapter 13, part 3, 1970.

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

  Jean Rostand

  Independent, Belief, Conviction

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

  Stendhal

  Years, Style, Forty

  "La Chartreuse de Parme". Book by Stendhal, first edition, marginalia note, 1840.

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• The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Liberty, Comfort

  Der Steppenwolf (1927) "Tractat vom Steppenwolf" (Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

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• Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

  Dorothy Parker

  Men, He Man, Copyright

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• Every noble activity makes room for itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Noble, Rooms, Action

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.482, Modern Library

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• A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Rose, Flying

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