To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
And I say let a man be of good cheer about his soul. When the soul has been arrayed in her own… — Socrates Copy Share Image
I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility,… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
He is man whose heart is spirited and eyes are wet each moment on account of the sorrow, compassion, virtue, beauty, and… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Traces of nobility, gentleness, and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do… — Walt Kelly Copy Share Image
Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“we regard the earldom as an important family honor. But my father is a good man precisely because he is a good… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
It is both revealing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“the human nature whose strong quality it brings out and reveals. To attribute any nobility to war itself is as much a… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Peabodys’, where Dr. Larch went to perform… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The ancient nobility and gentry of the kingdom... have been thrust out of all public employment... a race of merchants, and manufacturers… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
No more is your master a god, Nobility, but he wants offerings from all. When Black God claims us, who will be… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat… — Bartolomeo d'Alviano Copy Share Image
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
There are many true ladies, and they differ somewhat from society generally. So does a true gentleman, on the same principle of… — Maria Jane McIntosh Copy Share Image
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. — Riccardo Muti Copy Share Image
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
If noble death be virtue's chiefest part, We above all men are by Fortune blest, Striving with freedom's crown to honor Greece,… — Simonides Copy Share Image
On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we… — Lionel Terray Copy Share Image
The difference between the Pyramids in Egypt and the ones in Mexico is there is nothing inside the Mexican Pyramids. In the… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
You watch stuff like 'The Real Housewives' and you start to think, 'We're all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any… — Mike White Copy Share Image
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