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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
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You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge… — Catharine Sedgwick Copy Share Image
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After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is… — Annie Oakley Copy Share Image
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What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
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Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels… — Oscar W. Firkins Copy Share Image
Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
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