Nobler Quotes
161 quotes by 133 authors
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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
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Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
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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
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America has never forgotten - and will never forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the…
— Bernard Baruch
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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.
— William Wordsworth
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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
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...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
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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
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Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
— James Gates Percival
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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
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It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.
— Mark Twain
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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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
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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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