A Quote by Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
An humble man without learning, but filled with the Holy Spirit, is more powerful than the most nobly-born profound scholar without that inspiration. He who is educated by the Divine Spirit can, in his time, lead others to receive the same Spirit.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet and generous nature to have his strong relish for the beauties of vegetation, and this friendship for the hardy and glorious sons of the forest. He who plants a tree looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. Nothing could be less selfish than this.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
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To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.
