Quotes with noble

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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Voltaire Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • John Milton Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Madame de Girardin Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls.
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  • Mark Twain More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • John Ruskin No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • Henry Giles No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • Carlo Goldoni Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
    Pamela Fanciulla, Act I, Scene 6
    Carlo Goldoni
    Italian playwright (1707 - 1793)
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  • Tacitus Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Euripides Noble fathers have noble children.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • William Shakespeare Now cracks a noble heart.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.
    His Last Bow (1917)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Euripides Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Sir Walter Scott One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • John Sterling Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
    John Sterling
    Scottish author (1938 - )
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