"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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"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love."
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"Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close."
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"Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art."
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity."
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"Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty."
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"It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families."
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"Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous."
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"The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable."
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"Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise."
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"Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul."
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"I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be."
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"Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble."
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"If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing."
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"What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes."
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"He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life."
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