Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible? — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that… — H. M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man once said that the pinnacle of success Is when you've finally lost interest In money, compliments, and publicity A noble… — Todd Snider Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating,… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero. At the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
