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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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"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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"noble birth is an accident of fortune, noble actions characterise the great." »Goldoni
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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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"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"As gold is tried by the furnace, and the baser metal shown, so the hollow-hearted friend is known by adversity." »Metastasio
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"Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal." »South
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble." »Helen Keller
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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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"We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable." »Robert Cecil
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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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"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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"Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realisation in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege." »Herbert Hoover
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts." »Fletcher
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"They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it." »Kahlil Gibran
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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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"There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich." »Seneca
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"Gratitude is the sign of noble souls." »Aesop
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"Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it." »George Lorimer
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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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"noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783
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"It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced." »William Shakespeare
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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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"To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law." »Johann von Goethe
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"Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success." »Edward Dowden
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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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"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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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." »Aldous Huxley
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