Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well."
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Noble
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Washington Irving
Author
"There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations."
Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments."
Winston Churchill
Politician, Writer, Historian
"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"
Lucy Stone
Abolitionist, Women's Rights Advocate
"To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life."
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
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"Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living."
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"Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease."
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"Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves."
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"Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism."
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"Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world."
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"When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature."
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"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices."
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"Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained."
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"It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others."
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"A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt."
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"It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!"
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"Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions."
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"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know."
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper."
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"Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?"
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"A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy."
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"If the world is ever conquered for our Lord, it is not by ministers, nor by office-bearers, nor by the great, and noble and mighty, but by every member of Christ's body being a working member; doing his work; filling his own sphere; holding his own post; and saying to Jesus, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?""
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"I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty."
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"Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers."
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