"The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself."
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"No man is nobler born than another, unless he is born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. They who make such a parade with their family pictures and pedigrees, are, properly speaking, rather to be called noted or notorious than noble persons. I thought it right to say this much, in order to repel the insolence of men who depend entirely upon chance and accidental circumstances for distinction, and not at all on public services and personal merit."
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"For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more."
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"Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions."
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"Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery."
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"Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea."
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"An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes."
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"Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it."
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"...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move."
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"Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd."
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"Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?"
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"Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path."
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"Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad."
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"The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business."
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"Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee."
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"A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground."
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"Noble houskeepers neede no dores."
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"In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble."
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"Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner."
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"Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble."
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