#noble

What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#along #cares #carries #civilization #complete

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#began #borders #even #free #free trade

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

#brow #dead #departs #even #fame

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#based #consent #democracy #derives #fathers

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. ↗

— William Weld

#government #never #noble #wrongs

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#hold #how #knows #noble #people

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#gain #never #noble #torn #us

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#agriculture #basis #everything #experience #higher

Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#america #chance #dignitaries #find #formerly