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Quotes About Nobleness

These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered himself for one without any lot. All else were struck with admiration for the nobleness and with love for the goodness of the act.
~ Plutarch
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
~ Willa Cather
Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Swearing is like any other music...If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...
~ David Gridley, Indiantown
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
~ Henry James
Such as are excited by the gentler influence of Love assume more of affection in their looks, sink their voice into greater softness, and manifest in their gestures greater nobleness of soul.
~ Xenophon
'Tis only noble to be good.Kind hearts are more than coronets,And simple faith than Norman blood.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
~ Oscar Wilde
CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.
~ Euripides
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
la nobleza no depende de las posesiones, ya que la gente no siempre se ajusta al modelo
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
You took my empty dreams And filled them every one With tenderness and nobleness, April and the sun. The old empty dreams Where my thoughts would throng Ae far too full of happiness To even hold a song. Oh, the empty dreams were dim And the empty dreams were wide, They were sweet and shadowy houses Where my thoughts could hide.
~ Sara Teasdale
To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What of architectural beauty I now see, I know has gradually grown from within outward, out of the necessities and character of the indweller, who is the only builder, – out of some unconscious truthfulness, and nobleness, without ever a thought for the appearance; and whatever additional beauty of this kind is destined to be produced will be preceded by a like unconscious beauty of life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Toda a nobreza logo começa a refinar os traços de um homem; toda mesquinharia ou sensualidade, a embrutecê-los
~ Henry David Thoreau
She laughed and said not to confuse pride with nobleness.
~ Brom
On humbleness. — To be humble to superiors is duty; to equals is courtesy; to inferiors is nobleness; and to all, safety!
~ Bruce Lee
If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.
~ Charles Kingsley
There are in you two qualities that God loves: clemency [al-hilm] and forbearance [al-ana, "nobleness," "tolerance"].
~ Tariq Ramadan
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe