"To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble."
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"You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free."
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"There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers."
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"That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings."
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"The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won."
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"Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing."
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"No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
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"Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction."
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"The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit."
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"The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause."
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"It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written."
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"Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions."
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"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship."
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"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor"
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"Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope."
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"Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."
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"Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!"
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"But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty."
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"It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do."
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"I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project."
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