#noble

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. ↗

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one. ↗

— John Sterling

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To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life. ↗

— Lucy Stone

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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers. ↗

— Pat Brown

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