A Quote by John Ruskin
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.
I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
Let a man nobly live or nobly die.
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years
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.
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is, that he has, or should have, no animal nature. For his nature is nobly animal, nobly spiritual,--coherently and irrevocably so; neither part of it may, but at its peril, expel, despise, or defy the other.
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected.
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.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
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.
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