"While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble."
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"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"
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"When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves."
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
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"The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty."
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"Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for."
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"Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers."
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". . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
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"Well could he ride, and often men would say, "That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed."
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"Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another."
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"Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul."
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"It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living."
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"Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path."
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"Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life."
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"In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching."
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"Certainly it is one of our sweetest experiences that when we are touched by some noble affection or pure joy, we remember the dead most tenderly, and feel more powerfully drawn to them."
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"Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward."
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"No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart."
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"Throughout history, even the harshest and most shameful measures are regularly accompanied by professions of noble intent - and rhetoric about bestowing freedom and independence."
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"Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."
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