(121 quotes found)
“Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed”
Blaise Pascal
“Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”
William Shakespeare
“I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing.”
Winston Churchill
“We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.”
Abraham Lincoln
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!”
“Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy”
W. R. Inge
“To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound”
Christian Nevell Bovee
“The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.”
Wendell Phillips
“When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman”
Jean de la Bruyere
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
Dag Hammarskjold
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