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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #noble




Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world.


Pierre Corneille


#monarch #noblest #reveal #trait #true

The Englishman never enjoys himself except for a noble purpose.


A. P. Herbert


#enjoys #except #himself #never #noble

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.


Elijah Wood


#fellow #fellow men #former #lies #men

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible.


John Woolman


#age #almighty #amongst #care #creatures

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.


Frank Lloyd Wright


#architecture #civilization #culture #demands #downfall

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.


William Butler Yeats


#conquering #endured #energy #every #fund

‎We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.


Robert F. Kennedy


#selflessness #life

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.


Alfred Marshall


#enchanting #every #heroes #life #nobler

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.


W. Somerset Maugham


#does #ennobles #happiness #makes #men

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.


Robert Menzies


#blow #british #character #deadly #greatest






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