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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Author:
Elijah Wood
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For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.
Author:
James Walsh
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Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
Author:
Thaddeus Stevens
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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.
Author:
Stendhal
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Author:
Solon
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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.
Author:
Matthew Simpson
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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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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.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
Author:
Alfred Rosenberg
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What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance.
Author:
Theodore Roethke
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Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
Author:
Jane Porter
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I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
Author:
Riccardo Muti
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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.
Author:
Benito Mussolini
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In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Author:
John Motley
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Author:
Imelda Marcos
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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.
Author:
Georg Lichtenberg
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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
Author:
John Lasseter
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The human element, the human flaw and the human nobility - those are the reasons that chess matches are won or lost.
Author:
Viktor Korchnoi
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
Author:
Flavius Josephus
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Every strand of DNA is a hidden page from a familial narrative, sandwiched between lost relics and unearthly futures, waiting for the senses that decode its poetry.
Author:
Alice Thrift
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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.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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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.
Author:
Barbara Harrison
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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.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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True nobility is exempt from fear.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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Virtue is the truest nobility.
Author:
Miguel Cervantes
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Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
Author:
Robert Burton
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
Author:
Napoleon Bonaparte
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Author:
Theodore Bikel
