#nobility

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#inspirational #integrity #nobility #inspirational

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#debt #increase #man #much #nobility

Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors. ↗

— Thaddeus Stevens

#children #enter #estates #forth #handle

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#bodies #did #filthy #heads #idea

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#gaul #nobility #orders #people #priesthood

What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#madness #nobility #odds #soul

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#convictions #his #human #human being #independent

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now. ↗

— Stendhal

#forty years #make #nobility #now #our

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses. ↗

— George Orwell

#england #nobility #orwell #royalty #uk