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• Teach the legal rights of trees, the nobility of hills; respect the beauty of singularity, the value of solitude.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Rights, Tree, Solitude

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• If one drops dead in the street, friends and loved ones are shocked, stricken, but a long lingering death loses all nobility and drama, while relatives and friends await the inevitable end in a succession of weary anti-climaxes.

  Alanna Knight

  Death, Drama, Relatives And Friends

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.

  Winifred Holtby

  Fate, Men, Life And Death

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• Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Two, Ciphers, Ancestry

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

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• Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

  Alice Meynell

  Betrayal, Color, Broken

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• The pride of ancestry is a superstructure of the most imposing height, but resting on the most flimsy foundation. It is ridiculous enough to observe the hauteur with which the old nobility look down on the new. The reason of this puzzled me a little, until I began to reflect that most titles are respectable only because they are old; if new, they would be despised, because all those who now admire the grandeur of the stream would see nothing but the impurity of the source.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Foundation, Titles

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. I don't know how people raise children and direct films. I'm sorry, I don't know, how can you be good at both?

  Diane Lane

  Mother, Sorry, Children

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I was interested in is the lens organizing my sovereign space. I avoid the term outsider and also exile for the same reason. Outsider implies a kind of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Space, Sovereign, Lenses

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

  Nelson Mandela

  Reality, Glorious Life, Justice

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• My favorite love scenes in movies don't involve passion, they involve nobility or sacrifice.

  Roger Ebert

  Passion, Sacrifice, My Favorite

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,
  My presence, like a robe pontifical,
  Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,
  Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Wonder, States, Richness

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1323, Oxford University Press

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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Humility, Vanity

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• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Art, Character, Greatness

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• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Objectivity

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• [I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Religious, Military

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• Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Giving Up, Difficulty

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, Believe, Clinging

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• You know, ever since I was a kid I've always been fascinated by the Arthurian Legend and, you know, the notion of nobility in battle and the - the notion of chivalry. And, you know, that's a - whether to not that's a dying theme in today's world. And then the offer of the White Knight came along and the writing was just beautiful and it was something that I just leapt at. I mean, it was great fun to do.

  Matt Frewer

  Beautiful, Fun, Mean

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I've had such an odd career. I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn - ish - there was a bit of nobility about her. Instead I've always felt like the mutt standing on the sidelines, panting and saying, "Me, too! How about me?" That's just part of my personality.

  Sally Field

  Personality, Odd, Hepburn

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2008.

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• If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most of them through the Sufis, because human beings are such that they are affected by people of spiritual character. Certainly when they display nobility and hospitality and gentility and love and are not selfish or aggressive, and they are honest.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Selfish, Character

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Equality, Desire

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• To go back to a moment of Western civilization remote enough in time so that we should be able to look at it dispassionately, ask what happened during World War I. What was the typical behavior of respected intellectuals in Germany, England, the United States? What happened to those who publicly questioned the nobility of the war effort, on both sides? I do not think the answers are untypical.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Thinking, Civilization

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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