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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
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
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 patienceIs 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
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
Thanks to menOf 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
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
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
Think'st thou it honourable for a noble manStill 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
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 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
For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.
— William Shakespeare
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
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
If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!
— Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
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
