"There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes."
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"The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy."
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"Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake."
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"I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world."
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"To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble."
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"The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily."
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"Let it not be a beautiful face,' I thought, 'but to make up for that, let it be a noble, an expressive, and, above all, an extremely intelligent one."
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"All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept."
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"A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food."
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"The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering."
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"The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves."
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"To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death."
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"Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence."
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"A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail."
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"Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."
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"A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
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"The noble lord is the Rupert of debate."
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"I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus."
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"For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme."
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"A noble truth is a sacred creed."
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