Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
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.
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.
One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.
Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death.
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.
So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.
And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before--and thus was the Empire forged.
The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.
I am simply content to find myself always imperfect, and in this I find my joy. Good deeds count as nothing, if done without love.
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.
This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.
My beloved Elisa, my companion and wife, whom I love and revere, is one of the most noble of our Heavenly Father's handmaidens.
Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.
Marble statues, engraved with public inscriptions, by which the life and soul return after death to noble leaders.
Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong by history, culture, deeds, association, and affection.
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
Every man finds a sanction for his simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls Truth and Holiness.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.
If Michael, leader of God's host
When Heaven and Hell are met,
Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
He would his deeds forget.
Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you.
The suffragettes were women of action. Their motto was 'Deeds not Words,' and the film reflects that with a number of big set pieces, from the smashing of windows in central London to a riot at the Houses of Parliament.
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?
This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.
No matter how many good deeds we preform, they aren’t the ticket to earning God’s favor. God graces us in spite of what we do in this life, not because of.
Wicked words are the prelude to wicked deeds.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.
Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.
Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.
...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.
Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.
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