No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously… — Martial Copy Share Image
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble… — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I don't find acting to be a particularly noble way to make a living. I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
To do health care was a noble, good thing, and it will help America dramatically. I don't begrudge Barack Obama choosing it,… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the… — Steve Lopez Copy Share Image
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . .… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved… — Plato Copy Share Image
The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on… — Ruben Dario Copy Share Image
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless… — Rabindranath Tagore 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
There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
...at the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I believe that teaching is one of the most noble professions and it's no easy task to shape the minds of the… — Himani Shivpuri Copy Share Image
Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost. — James Martineau Copy Share Image
America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
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