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A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
Those subjects have the greatest educational value, which are richest in incentives to the noblest self-activity.
I was born and grew up in the greatest, the noblest achievement of the human race on this planet - which was called the United States of America.
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.
Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.
Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart; And faith in friendship is the noblest part.
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.
Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society.
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.
Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of acquisitions the most invigorating in their use and inestimable in their worth.
The very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within. Therefore it is said: 'In the midst of silence the secret word was spoken to me'.
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
"You are the noblest, purest creature I've ever met. The universe will be a darker place without you," he whispered.
There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.
It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.
If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to which the senses do not lead.
That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.
Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.
It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.
Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot be; not by the strongest and noblest flame.
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.
The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul.
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest state in which a man can live in this world.
That man is the most loyal who aims at the noblest motive, and that motive the public good.
It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.
I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.
A tranquil mind, a truth-filled speech, and a body dedicated to service-one who has these three qualities is described as the embodiment of 'Triputi' (the Triple purity). Such a one is the noblest of human beings.
Gnosis is lived upon facts, withers away in abstractions, and is difficult to find even in the noblest of thoughts.
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
