Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream. When a city accepts as a mandate its… — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
You should not pick an occupation because your think your parents want you to do it, or because you think it's the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The best innovations - both socially and economically - come from the pursuit of ideals that are noble and timeless: joy, wisdom,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would… — Piet Pieterszoon Hein Copy Share Image
I was a woman writing at the early moment when small drops of worried resentment and noble rage were secretly, slowly building… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
