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Quotes About Noble

This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
That he is gentil that dooth gentil dedis.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The Only good thing about skool are the boys who are noble brave fearless etc. although you have various swots, bullies, cissies, milksops greedy guts and oiks with whom I am forced to mingle hem-hem. in fact any skool is a bit of a shambles.
~ Geoffrey Willans
Why you exist, says Nietzsche with Sren Kierkegaard, nobody in the world can tell you in advance; but since you do exist, try to give your existence a meaning by setting up for yourself as lofty and noble a goal as you can.
~ Georg Morris Cohen Brandes
In high vengeance there is noble scorn.
~ George Eliot
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
~ Immanuel Kant
War itself requires no particular motivation, but appears to be ingrained in human nature and is even valued as something noble; indeed, the desire for glory inspires men to it, even independently of selfish motives.
~ Immanuel Kant
30 June 1941. Stress the Michauds. People who always pay the price and the only ones who are truly noble. Odd that the majority of the masses, the detestable masses, are made up of these courageous types. The majority doesn't get better because of them nor do they [the courageous types] get worse.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Her little shop might not change the world . . . or garner her a Nobel Peace Prize . . . but Mother Teresa had been right. Not everyone was able to do great things, but everyone could do small things with great love.
~ Irene Hannon
É muito fácil tratar com sarcasmo uma causa nobre. Basta querer.
~ Isaac Asimov
Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.
~ Elizabeth Ann Seton
Think that day lost whose (low) descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done.
~ Jacob Bobart
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
~ Pascal
God save our Gracious King, Long live our Noble King, God save the King. Send Him victorious Happy and Glorious Long to rule over us God save the King.
~ Henry Carey
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
~ Edward Dowden
Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
~ Aristotle
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
~ Thomas Hughes
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next.
~ Sam Kean
We Americans are lucky to live in a country with a history full of noble ideas, great leaders and awe-inspiring accomplishments. Sadly, many of our elites want no part of it.
~ Michael Barone
The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
~ P. G. T. Beauregard
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
~ Khalil Gibran
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
~ Barbara Tuchman
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
~ Stendhal