Nobleness Quotes
28 quotes by 22 authors
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
— Willa Cather
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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy…
— Katharine Lee Bates
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
— James Russell Lowell
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As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
— James Russell Lowell
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The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He cannot only forgive, he can…
— Robert E. Lee
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There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
— James Anthony Froude
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When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and…
— Matthew Arnold
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
— Oscar Wilde
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Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
— John Stuart Mill
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Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent…
— William Butler Yeats
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The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half…
— Henry James
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To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
— Benjamin Franklin
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.
— Douglas Adams
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob…
— Tamora Pierce
Who Wrote These Nobleness Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 28 Nobleness Quotes as follows: