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Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient. — Rumi

Ignoble contentment takes the place of burning zeal. — A.W. Tozer

Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. — Francis Bacon

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Many minds that have withstood the most severe trials have been broken down by a succession of ignoble cares. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

It is better to go down on the great seas which human hearts were made to sail than to rot at the wharves in ignoble anchorage. — Hamilton Wright Mabie

was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire. He had never done that. Still, — Oscar Wilde

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly. — Franz Grillparzer

We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely accepted to perish by degrees. — Anthony Eden

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. — Thomas Gray

All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble. — James Martin

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat. — Plato

Not ignoble. Don't torture yourself over it. I can't change the past but I can, hopefully, ease your fears from the future. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

No duty is ignoble. What can be ignoble is the sight of people trying not to be ignoble. — Idries Shah

Confusion is not an ignoble condition — Brian Friel

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means. — Lesley M.M. Blume

Envy, to which th' ignoble mind's a slave, Is emulation in the learn'd or brave. — Alexander Pope

We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects. — H.P. Lovecraft

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. — John Milton

No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. — Norman Douglas

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble. — Jean Cocteau

Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble. — Victor Hugo

I rationalize this by telling myself that while the work might be ignoble, it's not necessarily evil. We're not Hitler - we're just annoying people. — Dan Lyons

Hornblower worked as hard to conceal his human weaknesses as some men worked to conceal ignoble birth. — C.S. Forester

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Chickenshit is so called - instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit - because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously. — Stephen E. Ambrose

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble. — John Bunyan

The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. — Joan Miro

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Oprah's aspiration to inspire her audience with hope - elaborated on her TV show, in her magazine, and on her website - is hardly ignoble. — Lee Siegel

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble. — Mark Twain

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay. — Bhartrhari