Nobler Quotes

161 quotes by 133 authors

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
In green old gardens, hidden away From sight of revel and sound of strife, Here I have leisure to breathe and move, And to do… — Violet Fane
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not. — Mark Twain
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead… — Henry Ward Beecher
America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the… — Bernard Baruch
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. — William Wordsworth
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
...that though they may refuse to grow wise, they must inevitably grow old; ...that the proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is… — Sophia Lyon Fahs
Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids. — James Gates Percival
Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals… — Ordway Tead
It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others. — Mark Twain
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of… — William Wordsworth
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the… — James Payn
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own… — Ayn Rand
We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for… — Emma Thompson
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. — Oliver Goldsmith
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but… — Emile M. Cioran
The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's… — Margaret Fuller

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