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Nothing can shake my
belief that this world
is the fruit of a dark
god whose shadow I
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"AS ACTORS, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY NEED TO
KNOW THE FUTURE OF THE CHARACTER. YOU
JUST NEED TO KNOW THE BACKGROUNDS."
JOHN NOBLE
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Being a politician is a
poor profession. Being
a public servant is a
noble one.
Herbert Hoover
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Children sweeten labours. But they
make misfortune more bitter.
They increase the care of life. But
they mitigate the remembrance of
death. The perpetuity of
generation is common to beasts.
But memory, merit and noble
works are proper to men. And
surely a man shall see the noblest
works and foundations have
proceeded from childless men
which have sought to express the
images of their minds where those
of their bodies have failed.
Francis Bacon
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The Noblest form of Affection Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde

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Noblest minds are easiest bent. Votes: 3

Homer

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Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it. Votes: 3

Laurence J. Peter

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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. Votes: 2

Thomas Shadwell

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The noblest search is the search for excellence. Votes: 2

Lyndon B. Johnson

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. Votes: 2

Leonardo da Vinci

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This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords. Votes: 2

Edmond Halley

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory. Votes: 2

James A. Baldwin

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. Votes: 2

Plato

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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Votes: 2

Oscar Wilde

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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. Votes: 2

Madame de Stael

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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum. Votes: 2

Alexis Carrel

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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. Votes: 2

Aristotle

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. Votes: 2

Walt Whitman

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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. Votes: 2

William Henry Harrison

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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Votes: 2

Frederick the Great

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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Votes: 2

Confucius

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best. Votes: 2

Napoleon Hill

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Votes: 2

Philip James Bailey

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Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. Votes: 2

Albert Pike

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. Votes: 2

Mercy Otis Warren

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There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul. Votes: 2

Ameen Rihani

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The noblest men of all ages, Christian saints of the most transcendent spirituality have attained their wonderful development through the spiritual rays of this planet because of the intense feeling of Oneness with the divine and with all that lives and breathes in the universe. Votes: 2

Max Heindel

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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security. Votes: 2

Haile Selassie

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Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them. Votes: 2

Henry Norris Russell

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The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed. Votes: 2

Gian Carlo Menotti

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Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.' Votes: 2

Hugh Laurie

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Astrology, the noblest of sciences. Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. Votes: 0

Henry George Bohn

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The noblest revenge is to forgive Votes: 0

Thomas Fuller

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Unsung, the noblest deed will die. Votes: 0

Pindar

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Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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A woman's noblest station is retreat. Votes: 0

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven. Votes: 0

Euripides

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Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. Votes: 0

William Fogg Osgood

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The noblest mind the best contentment has Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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The noblest motive is the public good. Votes: 0

Virgil

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Faith in friendship is the noblest part. Votes: 0

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

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The noblest of the elements is water Votes: 0

Pindar

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Sight is the noblest sense of man. Votes: 0

Albrecht Durer

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An honest man's the noblest work of God. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. Votes: 0

William Saroyan

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Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature. Votes: 0

John Wesley

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The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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The noblest Digladiation is in the Theatre of ourselves. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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An honest God is the noblest work of man. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The noblest art is that of making others happy Votes: 0

P. T. Barnum

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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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The truest and noblest gift for yourself is personal development. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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To write good history is the noblest work of man. Votes: 0

John Dickson Carr

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A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. Votes: 0

Moses Harvey

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Our noblest hopes grow teeth and pursue us like tigers. Votes: 0

John Gardner

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The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. Votes: 0

Claudius Claudianus

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Envy assails the noblest: the winds howl around the highest peaks. Votes: 0

Ovid

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I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change. Votes: 0

Leonard Bernstein

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Love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. Votes: 0

Henry Van Dyke

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No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition. Votes: 0

Isaac Watts

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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man. Votes: 0

Haile Selassie

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The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. Votes: 0

Nancy Gibbs

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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people. Votes: 0

George Veditz

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Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords. Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt

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Prizefighting ain't the noblest of arts and I ain't the noblest artist Votes: 0

Harry Greb

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The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions. Votes: 0

Robin Sharma

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Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. Votes: 0

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. Votes: 0

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine

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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel. Votes: 0

Aaron Hill

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The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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The highest and noblest work in this life is that of a mother. Votes: 0

Russell M. Nelson

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The gift of food to the hungry is the noblest of all gifts. Votes: 0

Sathya Sai Baba

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Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The highest and noblest thing that history can be is a good story. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise. Votes: 0

Edward Gibbon

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America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. Votes: 0

William Bennett

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Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful. Votes: 0

Leonardo da Vinci

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Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. Votes: 0

Napoleon Bonaparte

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The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles. Votes: 0

Plato

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Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. Votes: 0

Pierre Corneille

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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done." Votes: 0

Bruce McCulloch

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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can. Votes: 0

Socrates

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The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied. Votes: 0

Henry Abbey

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Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. Votes: 0

Johann Gottfried Herder

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle

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The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?' Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor. Votes: 0

Karl G. Maeser

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Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. Votes: 0

Bruce McCulloch

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Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated. Votes: 0

Miguel de Unamuno

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To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood. Votes: 0

Amos Alonzo Stagg

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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage. Votes: 0

John Milton

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Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations. Votes: 0

Dirk Jan Struik

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Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part. Votes: 0

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery

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The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves. Votes: 0

Socrates

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Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Votes: 0

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

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We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey

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To snatch the passing moment and examine it for signs of eternity is the noblest of occupations. Votes: 0

Louis J. Halle

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Votes: 0

Simone Weil

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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. Votes: 0

Evelyn Waugh

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The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty. Votes: 0

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. Votes: 0

William Ramsay

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We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind. Votes: 0

John Adams

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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good. Votes: 0

Virgil

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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality. Votes: 0

Juvenal

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If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues. Votes: 0

Thomas S. Monson

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That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men. Votes: 0

Sinclair Lewis

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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Votes: 0

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness. Votes: 0

Steven Pressfield

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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being... Votes: 0

Benjamin Constant

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Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest. Votes: 0

John Muir

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The noblest people are those despising wealth , learning , pleasure and life ; esteeming above them poverty , ignorance , hardship and death . Votes: 0

Diogenes

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Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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The noblest of all studies is the study of what man is and of what life he should live. Votes: 0

Plato

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Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. Votes: 0

Philip Sidney

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The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. Votes: 0

Che Guevara

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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do. Votes: 0

Nido R Qubein

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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest? Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The horse, the noblest, bravest, proudest, most courageous and certainly the most perverse and infuriating animal that humans ever domesticated Votes: 0

Anne McCaffrey

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You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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I had always looked upon the search for the absolute as the noblest and most worth while task of science. Votes: 0

Max Planck

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Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts. Votes: 0

Samael Aun Weor

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The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying. Votes: 0

John Flavel

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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned. Votes: 0

Matthew Simpson

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Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable. Votes: 0

John Stott

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Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society. Votes: 0

Alan Cohen

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Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. Votes: 0

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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A real friend is one who helps us to think our best thoughts, do our noblest deeds, and be our finest selves. Votes: 0

Elizabeth George

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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. Votes: 0

Saul Bellow

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The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul. Votes: 0

Bonnie L. Oscarson

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If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. Votes: 0

Morris West

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Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given. Votes: 0

Wintley Phipps

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I think the noblest thing you can do is ask for help. And I mean that about therapy. I mean that about dieting. Votes: 0

Ginnifer Goodwin

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Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame. Votes: 0

Robert South

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In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. Votes: 0

Frederick William Robertson

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The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul. Votes: 0

David O. McKay

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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. Votes: 0

Plato

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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. Votes: 0

Louisa May Alcott

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The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. Votes: 0

Charles Caldwell Ryrie

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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away. Votes: 0

Mark Nepo

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Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the noblest victor. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha

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Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations. Votes: 0

James O'Donnell Bennett

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A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave. Votes: 0

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical realities. Votes: 0

Mario Cuomo

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What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many. Votes: 0

Paul Klee

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'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation. Votes: 0

Charles Lyell

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Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do. Votes: 0

Stephen Fry

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Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals. Votes: 0

Charles C. Ryrie

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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. Votes: 0

Theodore White

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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. Votes: 0

Richard Francis Burton

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. Votes: 0

Kathleen Casey

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Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt. Votes: 0

Alice Hegan Rice

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Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! Votes: 0

Robert Burns

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My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love. Votes: 0

Rick Riordan

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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed. Votes: 0

Grenville Kleiser

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The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed. Votes: 0

Francis Bacon

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The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry. Votes: 0

James Hervey

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The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free. Votes: 0

Liam Mellows

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A person's first duty, a young person's at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value. Votes: 0

G. H. Hardy

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Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy," Wren said. "It's the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for. Votes: 0

Rainbow Rowell

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Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will. Votes: 0

Sarah Knowles Bolton

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The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead. Votes: 0

John Lancaster Spalding

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt Votes: 0

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. Votes: 0

James Thurber

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Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last. Votes: 0

George Berkeley

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He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality. Votes: 0

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. Votes: 0

Brian Eno

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Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind. Votes: 0

Douglas MacArthur

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Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity. Votes: 0

Theodore T. Munger

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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom. Votes: 0

Dante Alighieri

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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use. Votes: 0

Louis D. Brandeis

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It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lecturesâbut far and wide. Votes: 0

Daniel Coit Gilman

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Oh, nature's noblest gift, my grey goose quill, Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will, Torn from the parent bird to form a pen, That mighty instrument of little men. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth. Votes: 0

Elias Lyman Magoon

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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see when the choice is made. Votes: 0

Robert K. Greenleaf

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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor. Votes: 0

Jostein Gaarder

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Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius

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I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner. Votes: 0

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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The cathedral, at its noblest, is the best outward symbol of the spiritual nature of man, as it is also the most suggestive measure and prophecy of the corporate life of man. Votes: 0

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

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Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts. Votes: 0

Conrad Hilton

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To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies. Votes: 0

John Wesley

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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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...we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. Votes: 0

Thomas Paine

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The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers. Votes: 0

Ogden Nash

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It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world. Votes: 0

Vicente Fox

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True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church. Votes: 0

David O. McKay

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The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision. Votes: 0

Washington Irving

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I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations. Votes: 0

David O. McKay

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Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving contemplation of worthy things, such as beauty and courage. Votes: 0

George Will

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The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, That makes her loved at home, revered abroad: Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, "An honest man 's the noblest work of God." Votes: 0

Robert Burns

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Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for all that's noblest will survive. Votes: 0

Ovid

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However much we admire the orator's occasional bursts of eloquence, the noblest written words are commonly as far behind or abovethe fleeting spoken language as the firmament with its stars is behind the clouds. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter. Votes: 0

Okakura Kakuzo

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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars. Votes: 0

Andre Gide

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A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Donât just wait for a man to come along. Thatâs the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself. Votes: 0

Albert Camus

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Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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â¦ The most worthy calling in life is that in which man can serve best his fellow man. â¦ The noblest aim in life is to strive to live to make other lives better and happier.

David O. McKay

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Do not think me mad. It is not to make money that I believe a Christian should live. The noblest thing a man can do is, just humbly to receive, and then go amongst others and give.

David Livingstone

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I have a respect for family pride. If it be a prejudice, it is a prejudice in its most picturesque shape. But I hold it is connected with some of the noblest feelings in our nature.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.

Meister Eckhart

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Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.

Edward Young

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If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

Charles Spurgeon

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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man to measure life; but it is possible to say, I am resolved to put life to its noblest and best use.

Thornton T. Munger

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We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.

Felix Adler

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The choice--the dedication to one's highest potential--is made by accepting the fact that the noblest act you have ever performed is the act of your mind in the process of grasping that two and two make four.

John Galt

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We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

Rabindranath Tagore

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My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George Eliot

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Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward. The greatest we can earn. Granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.

Helen Mirren

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One good yardstick as to whether a person might be the right one for you is this: in her presence, do you think your noblest thoughts, do you aspire to your finest deeds, do you wish you were better than you are?

Ezra Taft Benson

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The greatest and noblest pleasure we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices... A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.

Sathya Sai Baba

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The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave to the youth of his native land, is that of a shining, spotless example.

Robert Charles Winthrop

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I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

George Frederic Watts

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Teaching is one of the noblest of professions. It requires an adequate preparation and training, patience, devotion, and a deep sense of responsibility. Those who mold the human mind have wrought not for time, but for eternity.

Calvin Coolidge

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The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

Isadora Duncan

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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.

Rene Descartes

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Life is a warfare; and he who easily desponds deserts a double duty--he betrays the noblest property of man, which is dauntless resolution; and he rejects the providence of that All-Gracious Being who guides and rules the universe.

Jane Porter

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THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Happiness does not fall out of the blue and dreams will not come true by themselves. We need to be down-to-earth and work hard. We should uphold the idea that working hard is the most honorable, noblest, greatest and most beautiful virtue.

Xi Jinping

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Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it.

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

Nathaniel Branden

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Christian Morgenstern

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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.

Elbert Hubbard

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To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue, or greater stolidity and vice, is condemned. The noblest men, like the worst criminals, have been done to death.

John Lancaster Spalding

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Religion, which true policy befriends, Designed by God to serve man's noblest ends, Is by that old deceiver's subtle play Made the chief party in its own decay, And meets the eagle's destiny, whose breast Felt the same shaft which his own feathers drest.

Katherine Philips

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The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

Owen Feltham

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To contribute to the emergence of a society in which development will supplant stagnation, in which growth will take the place of decay, and in which culture will put an end to barbarism is the noblest, and, indeed, the only true function of intellectual endeavor.

Paul A. Baran

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When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery? When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?

William Bagley

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The study of science, dissociated from that of philosophy and literature, narrows the mind and weakens the power to love and follow the noblest ideals: for the truths which science ignores and must ignore are precisely those which have the deepest bearing on life and conduct.

John Lancaster Spalding

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Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

Oscar Wilde

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Goat cheese... produced a bizarre eating era when sensible people insisted that this miserable cheese produced by these miserable creatures reared on miserable hardscrabble earth was actually superior to the magnificent creamy cheeses of the noblest dairy animals bred in the richest green valleys of the earth.

Russell Baker

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Isn't this the perfect image of the noblest selflessness, and thereby presents an example and a model? It should be inspiring: like them, we are the units of a great social body, like them, we can serve and contemplate death with equanimity, subordinating our individual consciousness to collective consciousness.

Leo Errera

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For the Humanist, . . . head and heart . . . must function together. . . . The constitution of the Phillips Exeter Academy reads: 'Though goodness without knowledge . . . is weak and feeble, yet knowledge without goodness is dangerous. . . . Both united form the noblest character and lay the surest foundation of usefulness to mankind.'

Corliss Lamont

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