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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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• Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ideas, Nations

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

  J. G. Holland

  Heaven, Deeds, Steps

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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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• 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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• The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

  Aristotle

  Government, Numbers, Democracy

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.98, Princeton University Press

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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 must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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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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• Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Mean, Giving

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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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• Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

  Pythagoras

  Mean, Men

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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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• I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

  Bertrand Russell

  Beautiful, Hate, Believe

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.125, Routledge

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• Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

  Karl Blossfeldt

  Pleasure, Source, Educate

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• In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

  Nick Frost

  Art, Discipline, Kickboxing

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• To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

  Libbie Block

  Perfection, People, Comedian

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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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 noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

  Samuel Smiles

  People, Ignorant

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.17

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• O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

  Paul Lafargue

  Mother, Art, Laziness

  Paul Lafargue (2012). “The Right To Be Lazy”, p.36, The Floating Press

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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 noble person who has eaten of his lord's bounty should die in his lord's battles; to return to one's home dead and wrapped in a horse's hide is a happy fate. Am I the sort of people to bring to nought the grand designs of my country?

  Zhou Yu

  Country, Horse, Home

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