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"noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall." »Frank Lloyd Wright
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"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them." »Johann von Goethe
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." »Helen Keller
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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." »Fletcher
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"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown." »Homer
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." »Aesop
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"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." »Kahlil Gibran
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"To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law." »Johann von Goethe
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"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." »Aldous Huxley
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"To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true" »H.L. Mencken
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"Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean." »George Santayana
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"noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger." »John Bay
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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury." »Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world." »John B. Gough
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"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose." »Herbert Hoover
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"Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed." »Moliere
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"Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices." »Otto von Bismark
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"We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin." »Charles Darwin
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"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another." »Thomas Hughes
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed" »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest" »William Shakespeare
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"What a piece of work is a man how noble in reason how infinite in faculty in form and moving how express and admirable in action how like an angel in apprehension how like a god" »William Shakespeare
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"It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less trouble. - speech, 1906" »Mark Twain
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"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." »Lin Yutang
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