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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
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In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
The Wisdom of W.E.B. Du Bois (2003) -
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Rascals are always sociable - more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
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Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.
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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
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What is madness but nobility of soul. At odds with circumstance?
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