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11 Matches Found.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist
Yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English Playwright
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form, in moving, how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a God!
- Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696) French Moralist and Writer
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher
It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist
That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no Gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is a grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.
- M. L. Weems
It is not then, in the glare of public, but in the shade of private life, that we are to look for the man. Private life is always real life. Behind the curtain, where the eyes of the million are not upon him...There he will always be sure to act himself: consequently, if he acts greatly (in private), he must be great indeed. Hence it has been justly said, that, 'our private deeds, if noble, are noblest of our lives'...It is the
private virtues that lay the foundation of all human excellence.
- Hindu proverb
There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
- Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help during a fire at a Paris charity ball.
Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.
- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher
The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to
be received.
- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) British Politician and Writer
Duty is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. (Second Speech on Conciliation, 1775)
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