All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty. — Josephus Copy Share Image
Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven. — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God. — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism, founded upon appreciation… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't… — David Fincher Copy Share Image
[Why] should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling,… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble. — Patanjali Copy Share Image
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image