Noble Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

  Kate Seredy

  Heart, Long, Earth

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• Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ideas, Nations

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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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• Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

  Patience Strong

  Dream, Reality, Achievement

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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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• If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Political

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• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Opposites

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• There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

  Aristotle

  Differences, Errors, Government

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Men, Wish

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• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Enlightenment

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• I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense, sound judgement, and manly character.

  Orestes Brownson

  Character, Attachment, Judgement

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• I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Deeds Done, Tragedy

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.82, Bantam

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• Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

  Rick Riordan

  Annoying, Sneaky, Twisted

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• We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.

  Michael Barone

  Country, Ideas, Accomplishment

  "Spurning America" by Michael Barone, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2005.

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• As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it is rather absurd. It is so typical of American men, always wanting to do the noble thing.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Girl, Sex, Men

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• I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add that it is a profound and noble work, worthy of hard study by all other goyims. Unhappily, my report must differ from this expectation. It seems to me, save for a few bright spots, to be quite indistinguishable from rubbish.

  H. L. Mencken

  Profound, Expectations, Goyim

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• In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

  Leonhard Euler

  Discipline, Ignorant, Way

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• It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Nice, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Add, Yoke, Rubbish

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• And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Sophisticated, Rise Above

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• Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Queens, Lasts, Novel

  Ford Madox Ford (2011). “The Fifth Queen”, p.7, Vintage

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• The beautiful wooden board on a stand in my father's study. The gleaming ivory pieces. The stern king. The haughty queen. The noble knight. The pious bishop. And the game itself, the way each piece contributed its individual power to the whole. It was simple. It was complex. It was savage; it was elegant. It was a dance; it was a war. It was finite and eternal. It was life.

  Rick Yancey

  Beautiful, Queens, Kings

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Infinite Sea: The Second Book of the 5th Wave”, p.31, Penguin

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• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  Ernest Renan

  Race, Soldier, Rebel

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