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• Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

  Joseph Joubert

  Thinking, Views, Hands

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• The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

  Joseph Joubert

  Joy, Shows

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

  Pierre Corneille

  Years, Waiting, Soul

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• To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

  Teresa of Avila

  Dirt, Bricks, Arguing

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• To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them above the common level. The man who submits to the shafts of envy for the sake of noble objects pursues a judicious course for his own lasting fame. Hatred dies with its object, while merit soon breaks forth in full splendor, and his glory is handed down to posterity in never-dying strains.

  Thucydides

  Fate, Men, Envy

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• Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Sacrifice, Alliances, Deeds

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• Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, Disgusting, Contempt

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• Man was mark'd
  A friend in his creation to himself,
  And may, with fit ambition, conceive
  The greatest blessings, and the highest honors
  Appointed for him, if he can achieve them
  The right and noble way.

  Philip Massinger

  Ambition, Men, Blessing

  Philip Massinger, John Ford (1859). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.356

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• The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Kindness, Children, Rain

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.439

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• Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

  Roberto Rossellini

  Events, Ordinary, Way

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• The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Passion, Devil, Looks

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.231, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Character, Mind Love, Solitude

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• There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

  Jane Porter

  Humility, Mind, Lows

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.108

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• We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Want, Reason

  Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

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• Be a Gardener. Dig a ditch. Toil and sweat. And turn the earth upside down. And seek the deepness. And water plants in time. Continue this labor. And make sweet floods to run, and noble and abundant fruits to spring. Take this food and drink, and carry it to God as your true worship.

  Julian of Norwich

  Running, Sweet, Spring

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• In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Music, School, America

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• Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Teacher, Academic

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• Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Character, Opportunity, Roots

  George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.31

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• Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  Aeschines

  Amnesty, Genuine

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

  J. G. Holland

  Heaven, Deeds, Steps

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• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

  Owen Feltham

  Benefits, May, Rewards

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• I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

  Hadewijch

  Great Love, Wish, My Time

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• For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

  Hadewijch

  Sweet, Two, Stranger

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• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

  Aristotle

  Education, Son, Parent

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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