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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Teacher, Academic

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• Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Character, Opportunity, Roots

  George Stillman HILLARD (1854). “The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc”, p.31

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• It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature; which recognizes a noble thought, as a virtuous mind welcomes a pure sentiment by a involuntary glow of satisfaction. But while the principle of perception is inherent in the soul, it requires a certain amount of knowledge to draw out and direct it.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Art, Soul

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• Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

  Aeschines

  Amnesty, Genuine

  Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus (1836). “The Orations of Demosthenes”, p.159

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• Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt their own actions.

  Aeschines

  Real, Men, Vaunt

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• It is noble to grant life to the vanquished.
  [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

  Statius

  Mercy, Grants

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• Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

  Kate Seredy

  Heart, Long, Earth

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• Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ideas, Nations

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• the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes came thick and fast and were almost thrust upon us, the nation was still under the influence of the reconstruction spirit, when everything seemed possible ... A few years later the nation had reached the stage which follows a drinking bout. It was feeling ruefully in its empty pockets. It did not want to part with anything to anybody. Its head ached. Noble sentiments made it feel sick. It wanted only to be left alone.

  Eleanor Rathbone

  War, Drinking, Years

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• A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

  J. G. Holland

  Heaven, Deeds, Steps

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• Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

  Owen Feltham

  Benefits, May, Rewards

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• Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

  Patience Strong

  Dream, Reality, Achievement

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• I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

  Hadewijch

  Great Love, Wish, My Time

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• For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

  Hadewijch

  Sweet, Two, Stranger

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• If he's - the inference is that somehow he thinks slavery is a - is a noble institution I would - I would strongly reject that assumption - that John Ashcroft is a openminded, inclusive person.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Thinking, Political

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• The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

  Aristotle

  Government, Numbers, Democracy

  Aristotle, (2016). “Aristotle's Politics: Writings from the Complete Works: Politics, Economics, Constitution of Athens”, p.98, Princeton University Press

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• It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

  Aristotle

  Education, Son, Parent

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Opposites

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• There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . .

  Aristotle

  Differences, Errors, Government

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.263, Courier Corporation

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• It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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• All men, or most men, wish what is noble but choose what is profitable; and while it is noble to render a service not with an eye to receiving one in return, it is profitable to receive one. One ought therefore, if one can, to return the equivalent of services received, and to do so willingly; for one ought not to make a man one's friend if one is unwilling to return his favors.

  Aristotle

  Eye, Men, Wish

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• What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Focus, Enlightenment

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• Education does not mean knowledge (gyan) only, it also contains a life within it; it is not an arrangement, it is a duty. It is not merely a means of livelihood; it is the precious treasure of the noble tradition of giving, bestowing.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Mean, Giving

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• To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.

  Libbie Block

  Perfection, People, Comedian

  Libbie Block (1957). “The hills of Beverly”

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