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I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it. — Leo Tolstoy

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven. — Isaac Barrow

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others. — Samuel Smiles

Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. — Alfred Tennyson

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men. — Henry Ward Beecher

Men are not angels," Akhmar affirmed. "And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot. — J. Leigh Bralick

Likewise he believed that men wandering or lost in the wilderness often reversed that brutal order of life and became noble, wonderful, super-human. — Zane Grey

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem. — William Dunbar

Noble be man, helpful and good! — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. — William Shakespeare

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before — Joshua Chamberlain

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. — Gautama Buddha

A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws. — William H. Seward

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

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this. — Confucius

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. — Charles Reade

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner. — George R R Martin

No noble man ever hated good wine. — Francois Rabelais

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed. — Moliere

Thanks to men
Of noble minds, is honorable meed. — William Shakespeare

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. — James Russell Lowell

We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. — Euripides

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man. — Abraham Lincoln

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men. — John Noble

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man. — William Shakespeare

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality. — Charles Darwin

Oren tells Marcus: You have a peaceful, noble heart. But as we discussed last night, some men deserve to die. Valeria knows that. — Scott Robert Scheller

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. — Homer

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men. — D.H. Lawrence

The most noble
cause known to man
is the liberation
of the human mind
and spirit. — Maya Angelou

Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man
Still to remember wrongs? — William Shakespeare

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves. — David Jeremiah

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth. — Chanakya

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man. — Franz Hartmann

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied. — Samuel Johnson

The Noble Lie - the idea that men are brothers and are created equal. — Pierce Brown

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences. — Honore De Balzac

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her. — Samuel Johnson

A noble book! all men's book! — Thomas Carlyle

Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone. — Henry David Thoreau

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble. — John Lancaster Spalding

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man — George Washington

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. — J. William Fulbright

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential. — Ayn Rand

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. — William Shakespeare

Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men. — Frank Harris

The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself. — Seneca The Younger

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! — H.L. Mencken

Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane? — Greg Fitzsimmons

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. — Criss Jami

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue. — Saint John Chrysostom

It took bold and noble men and women of wisdom and grit to mould America! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! — Henry David Thoreau

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light. — George Lillo

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. — John Dryden

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. — Don Cheadle

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others. — Ali-Shir Nava'i

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. — D. Elton Trueblood

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things. — Xunzi

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock — Agona Apell

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women. — Franz Grillparzer

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained. — Pythagoras

why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? — Bram Stoker

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. — Henry David Thoreau

Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. — Charles Simmons

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics? — Benjamin Franklin