"The noble temptation to see too much in everything."
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"Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time."
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"This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it."
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"It's a principle that anything our leaders do is for noble reasons. It may be mistaken, it may be ugly, but basically noble. And if you bring in normal moderate, conservative, strategic, economic objectives you threatening that principle."
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"Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue."
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"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be."
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"By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health."
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"He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!"
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"The noble soul reveres itself"
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"The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings."
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"Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'."
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"I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave."
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"To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity."
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"And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not."
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"Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble."
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"Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up."
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"Noble be man, helpful and good!"
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"Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth."
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"How many times go we to comedies, to masques, to places of great and noble resort, nay even to church only to see the company."
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"The first step to get this noble and manly steadiness, is... carefully keep children from frights of all kinds, when they are young. ...Instances of such who in a weak timorous mind, have borne, all their whole lives through, the effects of a fright when they were young, are every where to be seen, and therefore as much as may be to be prevented."
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