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• Happiness only comes when you let go of who you think you are. If you think you're wealthy and powerful and noble and truthful or horrible and demonic, whatever it may be, it's all a waste of time. Take it from the Zen Master. He knows.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Letting Go, Powerful

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• "We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

  Abraham Cowley

  Art, Garden, Eagles

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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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• I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Shelves, Eyeballs

  "When Pixels Find New Life on Real Paper" by Noam Cohen, www.nytimes.com. April 19, 2009.

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• One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

  Douglas A. Zembiec

  Enemy, Can Do

  "The unapologetic warrior". Interview with Tony Perry, www.latimes.com. August 22, 2004.

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• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted...and get it without toil, without sweat, without tears. Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Song, Pain, Believe

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.76, Penguin

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• Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strong, Children, Good Luck

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Jungle Book: Illustrated”, p.20, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth.

  Pope Francis

  Thinking, Self, Political

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.61, BookBaby

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Accomplish

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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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• 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 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 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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• 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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• No noble thing can be done without risks.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Risk, Done

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• Newton, Pascal, Bossuet, Racine, F?nelon -- that is to say, some of the most enlightened men on earth, in the most philosophical of all ages -- have been believers in Jesus Christ; and the great Cond?, when dying, repeated these noble words, "Yes, I shall see God as He is, face to face!".

  Luc de Clapiers

  Jesus, Philosophical, Men

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