A Quote by James Russell Lowell

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

James Russell Lowell

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Another Grows Lamp Less Lights Nor

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James Russell Lowell
American - Poet
February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Willa Cather

A nobleness to try for, A name to live and die for.

George Parsons Lathrop

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Oscar Wilde

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

William Mountford

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Benjamin Franklin

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

Philip Sidney

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.

William Cartwright

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

Douglas Adams

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

Quintus Ennius

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

Thomas Aquinas

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

James Russell Lowell

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.

Willa Cather

And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.