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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
TacitusRead
The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
Victor HugoRead
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.
William WordsworthRead
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.
Gautama BuddhaRead
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
Georg C. LichtenbergRead
For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations personnel who sacrificed their lives for a noble cause. Even as we mourn our fallen colleagues, we are all uplifted by their unflinching commitment and are inspired to strive even harder for the collective cause so eloquently envisaged in the United Nations Charter: a world free from the scourge of war.
Jan EliassonRead
For an hour, blended with all she could offer, something noble had been created which had nothing to do with the physical world. And from the turn of his throat, the warmth of his hair, the strong, slender sinews of his hands, something further; which had. Though she combed the earth and searched through the smoke of the galaxies there was no being she wanted but this, who was not and should not be for Philippa Somerville.
Dorothy DunnettRead
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRead
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre GideRead
A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.
C. S. LewisRead
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
TecumsehRead
Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.
Leo RostenRead
...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.
Woodrow WilsonRead
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheRead
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis BeaumontRead
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord TennysonRead
The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
Pope John XxiiiRead
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.
HomerRead
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
John MiltonRead
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
SophoclesRead

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