Noblest Quotes

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It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given. — Wintley Phipps
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring… — Kathleen Casey
MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest… — Ambrose Bierce
Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations. — Unknown Author
The noblest mind the best contentment has — Edmund Spenser
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. — Jean de la Bruyere
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to… — Samuel Johnson
What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can… — Mark Twain
Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his… — George Eliot
There is poetry and there is beauty in real sympathy; but there is more - there is action. The noblest and most powerful form of… — Octavius Winslow
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence.… — Melina Mercouri
I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time,… — Kathryn Schulz
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States… — Ayn Rand
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions. — Samuel Smiles
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and… — William Jennings Bryan
Faith is the choice of the nobler hypothesis.' Not the noblest, one never knows what that is. But the nobler, the best one can see… — Robert K. Greenleaf
True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting… — David O. McKay
The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions. — Albert Camus
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. — Henry David Thoreau

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