#nobles

Through this same man and me hath all this war been wrought, and the death of the most noblest knights of the world; for through our love that we have loved together is my most noble lord slain. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#death #hath #knights #lord #love

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ennobles #great #great principle #nation #principle

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#ennobles #heals #just #man #nonviolence

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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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

#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady. ↗

— L.divine

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#finance #helping-others #inspiration #noblesse-oblige #success

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#best #count #deeds #dial #feels