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• Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

  Henry Royce

  Latin, Humble, Adversity

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• Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  People, Essentials, Break

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• Listen to us rather than to Arkady Mamontov talking about us. Don't twist and distort everything we say. Let us enter into dialogue and contact with the country, which is ours too, not just Putin's and the Patriarch's. Like Solzhenitsyn, I believe that in the end, words will crush concrete. Solzhenitsyn wrote, "the word is more sincere than concrete, so words are not trifles. Once noble people mobilize, their words will crush concrete."

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

  Crush, Country, Believe

  "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.

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• California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural wealth and bounty from the investment and hard work of those more noble now resting in our cemeteries-and squandered that gift within a generation.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Hard Work, California

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• A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

  Philip Sidney

  Heart, Character, Sun

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• Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Believe, Son

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• Filming this drama made me realise how noble the nursing profession really is -- from the selfless dedication to the care and love for patients. Let me take this opportunity to pay tribute to all the great nurses out there!

  Rebecca Lim

  Drama, Nursing, Opportunity

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• For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

  Alice Cary

  Honest, Birth, Fortune

  Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Mary Clemmer (1876). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”, p.176

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• The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Patriotic, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.122, Harvard University Press

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• There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Peers, Ears

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• I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Cowardice

  William Shakespeare, John D. Cox, Eric Rasmussen (2001). “King Henry VI Part 3: Third Series”, p.306, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

  Mark Twain

  Prayer, Cutting, Enemy

  Mark Twain (2011). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court—Un yanqui en la corte del Rey Arturo: English-Spanish Parallel Text Edition Volume One”, p.220, Lulu.com

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• And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wrecks, Immortality, Stills

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.188

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• Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

  Romain Rolland

  Country, Hate, War

  Romain Rolland, Charles Kay Ogden (1916). “Above the battle”

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• In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.

  Daniel Handler

  Men, People, Worry

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• It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Husband, Father, Health

  Jerome K. Jerome (2006). “Jerome K. Jerome: 14 Books in 1”, p.32, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

  Sivananda

  Teaching, Sublime, World

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• The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Criticism, Rivals, Critics

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 149-52, Curiosities of Literature, Literary Journals, 1922.

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• My love's a noble madness.

  John Dryden

  Love, Madness

  'All for Love' (1678) act 2, sc. 1

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• The United States has adventured upon a great and noble experiment . . . of total separation of Church and State. . . . The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. . . . Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and . . . our system of free government would be imperfect without it.

  John Tyler

  Men, Office, Support

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• The market economy is deeply congruent with the values set out in the Hebrew Bible. Material prosperity is a divine blessing. Poverty crushes the spirit as well as the body, and its alleviation is a sacred task. Work is a noble calling.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Crush, Blessing, Tasks

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

  Algernon Blackwood

  Beautiful, Moon, Evil

  Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

  Don Cheadle

  Men, Play, Black

  "Actor Don Cheadle". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. February 21, 2012.

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• I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

  George Catlin

  Men, Past, Race

  George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.16

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• At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Religious, Book, Careers

  Interview with Simon&Schuster, www.simonandschuster.com.au.

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