Noble Quotes

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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 non-essentials.

  Lin Yutang

  Motivational, Time, Art

  "Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations From All Ages" by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze, (p. 46), 1987.

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• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

  Martin Luther

  Music, Art, Greatest Treasure

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• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.24, Pelekanos Books

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• I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Life, Deeds And Words

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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• Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Appreciation, War

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• God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Hands, Hope For Tomorrow

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• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Attitude, Character

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• To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Diversity

  Mark Twain (2000). “The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories”, p.102, Book Tree

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• The noble man is only God's image.

  Johann Ludwig Tieck

  Men, Noble Man

  "Genoveva" by Johann Ludwig Tieck,

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Lonely, Loneliness

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

  Jean Racine

  Heart, Malice, Felt

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• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Friedrich Schiller (1884). “Works”

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• Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

  William Weld

  Government

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• To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Justice, Use

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Children, Character, Artist

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Majority, Vietnam

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• No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Architecture, Imperfect

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.13

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• George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

  Mark Shields

  John Kerry, Supporter

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• Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

  Will Carleton

  Country, Hero, Army

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.89, Applewood Books

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• Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Travel, Adventure, Joy

  "The Sound of Thunder". Pt. I, Ch. 9. Book by Taylor Caldwell, 1957.

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• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

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• No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Doe, Capability

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.93, John Ruskin

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• Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as does a distinguished success.

  Edward Dowden

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  "Shakespeare A Critical Study Of His Mind And Art".

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