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• It is a noble and great thing to cover the blemishes and excuse the failings of a friend; to draw a curtain before his weaknesses and to display his perfections; to bury his shortcomings in silence but to proclaim his virtues on the housetop.

  Robert South

  Perfection, Silence, Weakness

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• Sometimes the enormity of war overwhelms the truth that all great struggles are just the sum of individual stories. Each is more than just the story of one soldier's service and sacrifice. Their service ripples across their families, friends and their communities. Memorial Day reminds us it is the noble sacrifice of many that makes us who we are.

  James Carafano

  Memorial Day, War, Struggle

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• I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Father, Broken

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• If a leader demonstrates that his purpose is noble, that the work will enable people to connect with something large - more permanent than their material existence - people will give the best of themselves to the enterprise

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  People, Giving, Leader

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• Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

  Sivananda

  Character, Evil, Temptation

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• The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.

  Salman al-Ouda

  Prayer, Heart, Blessing

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• Remember that a noble logical diagram, once recorded, will never die; long after we are gone, it will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.

  Willis Polk

  Long, Gone, Growing

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• The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit.

  Mark Leibovich

  Pursuit

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• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Silly, Men, Views

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

  Aristotle

  Pain, Causes, Action

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ignorant have always the tendency to see the donkey as the noble horse, to see the pig as the lion! Ignore the judgements of the ignorant, because ignorant makes the ant elephant; he declares the stupid as the intelligent; he carries the silly on his shoulders!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Horse, Stupid, Silly

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• It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

  Mark Twain

  Self, Expression, Hands

  Mark Twain (1992). “Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing religion, teaching classes in religion, preaching in a local church. That is fine and noble activity. But I do not feel entitled to engage in it. So for me philosophy is my fate.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.37, Polity

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• The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

  Alex Gibney

  Sex, Police, Catholic

  Source: deadline.com

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• Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Distance, Neighbor, Should

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.237, Macmillan

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• The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Patriotism, Virtue, Liable

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Writing, People, Machines

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• Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But nothing has been asked of them in this horrendous recession. And it's time we just ask.

  Joe Biden

  Patriotic, Class, People

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• To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Lying, Truth Is, Excellent

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• He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

  Heinrich Heine

  Feels

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• The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.

  Khaleda Zia

  Kings, Long, Humanity

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• Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Pain, Life And Death, Poverty

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.20, Modern Library

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• We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Believe, Self

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• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. . . . . . . Prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culminating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Art, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

  Tom Stoppard

  Selfish, Stupid, People

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Coast of Utopia Trilogy”, Faber & Faber

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