Quotes with nobler

  • Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
  • If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    ― George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Pike Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the
    ― Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Helen Rowland Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
    ― Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
    ― George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
    ― Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
    ― Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
    ― Alfred Marshall
     
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  • Mark Twain It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good - and less trouble!
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
    ― Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Lord George Byron Posterity will never survey a nobler grave than this: here lie the bones of Castlereagh: stop, traveler, and piss.
    ― Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Homer There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
    ― Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • William Wordsworth Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
    ― William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Mark Twain To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
    ― Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    ― William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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