"Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities."
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"It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."
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"God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created."
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"The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form."
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"The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone."
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"Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality."
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"There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun."
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"My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect."
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"It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us."
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"Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable."
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"Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone."
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"Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man."
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"All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble."
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"Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns."
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"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
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"One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble."
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"I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it."
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"Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men."
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"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"
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"A noble heart will always capitulate to reason."
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