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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Math, Logic

  Charles Baudelaire (1992). “Selected Writings on Art and Literature”, Penguin Classics

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• To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Men, Ideas

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• Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

  Gerrit Smith

  Men, Rights, Mercy

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• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Mistake

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• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Nature, Simplicity

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 1, 1799.

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  William Shakespeare

  Patience, Mean, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.24, BookCaps Study Guides

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• If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

  James Bovard

  Government, One Day, Snapshots

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

  Roger Ebert

  People, Desire, Needs

  Interview With Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. August 1, 2003.

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• America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

  Herbert Hoover

  America, Presidential, Purpose

  Letter toWilliam E. Borah, 23 Feb. 1928.

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• An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

  A. P. Herbert

  Humorous, Purpose, Enjoy

  1935 Uncommon Law,'Fox-Hunting Fun'.

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• Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Essence, Soul, Egoism

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• I am as free as nature first made man,
  Ere the base laws of servitude began,
  When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

  John Dryden

  Freedom, Men, Law

  The Conquest of Granada pt. 1, act 1, sc. 1 (1670)

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• Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

  James Russell Lowell

  Lying, Sleep, Men

  James Russell Lowell (1853). “Poems”, p.220

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• I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

  Homer

  Lying, Winning, Dust

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• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Causes

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87

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• Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Ordinary, Essentials, Bones

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Forgiveness, Believe, Thinking

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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Equality, Desire

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  John Sterling

  Strong, Pain, Joy

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Ears, Politics

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• This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Boys, Ideas, Arrogance

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• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  Madame de Stael

  Quality, Genius, Innocence

  "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.

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• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

  James Martineau

  Past, Mind, World

  "Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses".

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Secular Society

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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