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• Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

  Mark Waid

  Hero, Gun, Chrome

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• Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty God Himself: to preach the truth, to defend womanhood, to repel humiliation which your Creator has not imposed upon you, to help the oppressed. Anyone who uses his energy for the sake of the vanities of the world is like someone who exchanges gemstones for gravel. There is no nobility in anyone who lacks faith. The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in Paradise.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wise, Men, Vanity

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• Wrong education and upbringing produces ugly personalities, whereas a fine upbringing and good education will bring forth superior sense and feeling, as well as nobility and purity of mind.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Personality, Feelings, Mind

  Dr. Shinichi Suzuki, Waltraud Suzuki (1983). “Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education”, p.14, Alfred Music

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• God saves us because He loves us. It has nothing to do with our goodness or nobility, our achievements or agility. Our salvation depends completely upon our Savior.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Achievement, Agility, Goodness

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• A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Men, Aspiration, Depends

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• There is no nobility with bad manners.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Manners, Bad Manners

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• You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

  SebastiAn

  Dream, Giving Up, Fighting

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• On this proud and beautiful mountain we have lived hours of fraternal, warm and exalting nobility. Here for a few days we have ceased to be slaves and have really been men. It is hard to return to servitude.

  Lionel Terray

  Beautiful, Men, Climbing

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• Every person has a train of thought on which they travel when they are alone. The dignity and nobility of their life, as well as their happiness depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries and the scenery through which it travels.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Train Of Thought, Baggage, Dignity

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• Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Nature, Order

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1962). “The Portable Emerson”

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• There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Noble, Earth

  The Prelude bk. 11, l. 393 (1850) See John Dewey 1; Hamer 1; Lyndon Johnson 5; Lyndon Johnson 6; Lyndon Johnson 8; Wallas 1

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• (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here below. Who guards his post, no matter where, believing God must need him there, Although but lowly toil it be, has risen to nobility. For great and low there's just one test, 'tis that each man shall do his best, Who works with all the strength he can, shall never die in debt to man.

  Edgar Guest

  Real, Believe, Greatness

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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• There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.

  Gregory Peck

  Mother, Queens, Children

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• The citizen ... preserved the resolute bearing of one who was not to be frowned down or daunted, and who cared very little for any nobility but that of worth and manhood.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Citizens

  Charles Dickens (1871). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Other Pieces”, p.173

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• Fascism, in so far as it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism - born of a renunciation of struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Struggle

  " Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy : 1919 to the Present" by Stanislao G. Pugliese, (p. 89), 2004.

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• Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, Long, Kind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society’s energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

  Alan Weisman

  Energy, Too Much, Craving

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• Man is capable of greatness, love, nobility, compassion. Yet never forget that his capacity for evil is infinite. It is a sad truth, boy, that if you sit now and think of the worst tortures that could ever be inflicted on another human being, they will already have been practiced somewhere. If there is one sound that follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

  David Gemmell

  Boys, Greatness, Men

  David Gemmell (2011). “Bloodstone”, p.150, Del Rey

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• I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.

  Bette Greene

  Hate, Believe, Love Is

  Bette Greene (1984). “Summer of my German soldier”, Starfire

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• Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.

  Salman Rushdie

  Memories, Father, Eye

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• He squeezed Steve's shoulder possessively. "Oh, Zero. He is not you, I must admit. He does not have your bravery, your nobility, your je ne sais quoi, and all he talks about is this magical place called 'Canada'.

  Anne Ursu

  Zero, Bravery, Doe

  Anne Ursu (2009). “The Immortal Fire”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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• No system can long command the loyalties of men and women which does not expect of them certain measures of discipline, and particularly self-discipline. The cost in comfort may be great. The sacrifice may be real. But this very demanding reality is the substance of which comes character and strength and nobility. Permissiveness never produced greatness. Integrity, loyalty, and strength are virtues whose sinews are developed through the struggles that go on within as we practice self-discipline under the demands of divinely spoken truth.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Loyalty, Integrity, Real

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• The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Noble, Poverty, Advantage

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Mean, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.77

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