Noble quotes
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"The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding people, you're nurturing them, you're providing sustenance - it was never pure."
"Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it."
"I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity."
"What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?"
"If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine."
"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood."
"I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love."
"A noble shalt thou have, and present pay; And liquor likewise will I give to thee, And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood."
"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced."
"In right and service to their noble country."
"Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust."
"For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving."
"Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath."
"There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead."
"I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble."
"Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes."
"In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls."
"Every noble activity makes room for itself."
"One of the things forgotten about the human spirit is that while it is, in the right conditions, noble and brave and wonderful, it is also, when you get right down to it, only human."
"Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons."
