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• We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you, have not been shaped by a paterfamilias or a schoolmaster, they have sprung from very different beginnings, having been influenced by evil or commonplace that prevailed round them. They represent a struggle and a victory.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Struggle, Journey

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• Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Love, Lying, Heart

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• When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

  Daniel Handler

  Tears, Trying, Comfort

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• Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

  Sheri L. Dew

  New Year, Powerful, Self Confidence

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• Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.

  Garrison Keillor

  Children, Ignorance, Kids

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.22, Penguin

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• Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

  David O. McKay

  Character, Development, Godlike

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• Virginia States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not those seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. The time is long past — if indeed it ever existed — when we should permit the noble concept of states' rights to be betrayed.

  Robert Kennedy

  Past, Rights, Long

  "America the Beautiful".

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• There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Self, Giving

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• love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion, Men, Europe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2013). “The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.666, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

  T. H. White

  War, Feuds, Territory

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.203, Penguin

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• Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Names, Everyday

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• Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.

  Edmond Rostand

  Beautiful, Hands, Imagination

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• It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

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• There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be.

  Brent Weeks

  Sacrifice, Winning, Guarantees That

  Brent Weeks (2009). “Beyond The Shadows: Book 3 of the Night Angel”, Hachette UK

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• The nobles and the noble Houses maneuver for advantage. They do things they think will help them, or hurt and enemy, or both. Usually, it's all done in secrecy, or if not, they try to make it seem as if they're doing something other than what they are.

  Robert Jordan

  Hurt, Thinking, House

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.306, Macmillan

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• Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dragons, Ideas, Enemy

  "Guards! Guards!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Rights, Law

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• How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.

  Anne Frank

  Fall, New Day, Mind

  Anne Frank (1972). “Anne Frank: the diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Blood, Beggar

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.321

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• That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no disaster, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Night, Law

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set: Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow”, p.94, Macmillan

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• We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Promise, Generations

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Mean, Despair

  Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

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• ...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.

  Bill Cosby

  Song, Art, Drama

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• Let us be those creative dissenters who will call our beloved nation to a higher destiny. To a new plateau of compassion, to a more noble expression of humanness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Compassion, Humanness Is

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• Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. How's this?" he asked, showing the ad to Charlotte. It says 'Crunchy.' 'Crunchy' would be a good word to write in your web." Just the wrong idea," replied Charlotte. "Couldn't be worse. We don't want Zuckerman to think Wilbur is crunchy. He might start thinking about crisp, crunchy bacon and tasty ham. That would put ideas into his head. We must advertise Wilbur's noble qualities, not his tastiness.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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