#noble

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ↗

— Aristotle

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

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Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community. ↗

— Joe Biden

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We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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The noble man is only God's image. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

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I wil not compare the education of an ancient Spartan with that of a British nobleman. ↗

— Thomas Day

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It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

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