Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.
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Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
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I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
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Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.
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Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
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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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By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified re
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, wh
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true
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I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
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Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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