A Quote by William Ellery Channing

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.

William Ellery Channing

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William Ellery Channing
American - Writer
April 7, 1780 - October 2, 1842

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides

I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.

Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.

Sophocles

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.

I. L. Peretz

It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.

John Ruskin

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

Sophocles

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.

John Ruskin

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies.

William O. Douglas

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

...art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

Andrei Tarkovsky

To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons.

William Shakespeare

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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.

Seneca the Younger

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

Claude McKay

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