Noble Quotes - Page 40

• The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

  Lois Crisler

  Eye, Intelligent, Gentle

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• Where pity is, for pity makes the world
  Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.

  Edwin Arnold

  Sympathy, Strong, World

  "The Light of Asia: The Great Renunciation".

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• Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

  Herman Melville

  Running, Men, Glowing

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.127, Velvet Element Books

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• Music. – There is something very wonderful in music. Words are wonderful enough: but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do: it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings into us; it melts us to tears, we know not how: – it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words; just as divine, just as blessed.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Blessed, Heart

  "The Good News of God".

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• The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

  Euripides

  Men, Law, Cities

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.152, University of Chicago Press

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• The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Men, Soul, Gold

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “Ponkapog papers: A sea turn, and other papers”

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• God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

  Lucy Larcom

  Wake Up, Way, All The Best

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• No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

  Lucy Larcom

  Doors, Solitude, Employment

  Lucy Larcom (1875). “An Idyl of Work”, p.8

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity.

  Oliver Sacks

  Kindness, Heart, Adversity

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “A Leg to Stand On”, p.99, Pan Macmillan

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• One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Goal, Pioneers, Garbage

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• People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

  Max Beerbohm

  Thinking, People, Desire

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.89, New York Review of Books

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• Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

  Clarence Day

  Elephants, Suffering, Quality

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

  Pierre Corneille

  Fate, Soul, Age

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• There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

  Charles Simmons

  Forgiveness, Doe, Remember

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• Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

  Jean Genet

  Love, Use, Coincidence

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Simple, Government

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• Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in the severe abstinence of grey winter: in the living flesh that animates our bodily frame: in the perfect poise of the human figure, noble and upright: in living, in the exercise of all our powers: in the acquisition of knowledge. . . Joy is there everywhere.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Spring, Winter, Exercise

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.64, Rabindranath Tagore

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• Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

  Sanai

  Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

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• Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Four, Path

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• Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

  George Mikes

  Funny, Humorous, Israel

  George Mikes (1969). “Coat of Many Colors: Israel”

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• Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, People, Desire

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• ...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Religious, Science, Men

  Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt (1854). “Johnson's Lives of the British Poets”, p.205

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• [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions].

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Humble, Science

  Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

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• All I'm saying is that you shouldn't stay with him for the wrong reasons, even if they are noble ones. No one owes it to someone else to be their girlfriend. It's a choice you remake every day.

  Aprilynne Pike

  Girlfriend, Choices, Reason

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