Frases de Noble

Comedy is a noble art.

My love's a noble madness.

Ego is vital but not noble.

Noble spirits are heterodox.

The noble soul reveres itself

A noble book! all men's book!

Noble be man, helpful and good!

A noble truth is a sacred creed.

What's so noble about being dead?

Noble houskeepers neede no dores.

Noble fathers have noble children.

No noble man ever hated good wine.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

The noble man is only God's image.

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

To generous souls every task is noble.

The noble must make humility his root.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

I will be brief. Your noble son is mad.

The noble style immobilizes its subjects.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood.

A noble man is led by woman's gentle words.

Every noble activity makes room for itself.

I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

In right and service to their noble country.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

A noble cause doth ease much a grievous case.

Friendship's a noble name, 'tis love refined.

A noble heart is a window to find an open mind.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

Noble man remembers nothing good he did for others.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

The noble temptation to see too much in everything.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base.

Three cheers for war, noble and beautiful above all.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Love is serious and tolerant. Magnificent and noble.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer...

We can do noble acts without ruling the earth and sea.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Of all ruins, that of a noble mind is the most deplorable.

One of the most noble things you can do is kill the enemy.

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship.

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

A noble spirit finds a cure for injustice in forgetting it.

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

Noble friends and companions are the whole of the holy life.

Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.

The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

I'm not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.

The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love.

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

I know nothing more noble than the contemplation of the world.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others.

Only power can get people into a position where they may be noble.

When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble.

I wish to devote all my time / To noble thoughts about great Love.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it.

Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well,

But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.

Expect neither reward nor beatitude. Return noble waves for ignoble.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is Third.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it.

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes...

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

Nothing can be fairer, or more noble, than the holy fervor of true zeal.

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Humans can be noble. The question is: Will we put forth what is necessary?

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!..

A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others.

The courageous struggle for a noble cause should be considered success itself.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth.

There is something noble in hearing myself ill spoken of, when I am doing well;

The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.

Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

Love is a hero's journey, and the hero's journey is a noble but difficult path.

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words "my country" may evoke.

We believe in self creation. That's why Buddhists believe in the Four Noble Truths.

Those who are nothing particular are noble people. Don't strive - just be ordinary.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.

The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.

By which I get my wealth-- And very gladly will I drink Your Honour's noble health.

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

There are two noble things in life: one to do charity and other to look after your body,

I'm gonna build me a boat with these two hands, it'll be a fair curve from a noble plan.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Love is a lock that linketh noble minds, Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.

He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

[The unreactivity of the noble gas elements] belongs to the surest of experimental results.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

One of the permanent possessions of the human heart is the memory of its noble enthusiasms.

. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

Nothing fine and noble will ever perish from the earth as long as there are hearts to remember.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.

All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Learn Arabic, for it strengthens the intelligence and increases one's noble conduct (al-murû`ah).

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

One of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime poems which either this age or nation has produced.

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

Oi'm always noble, sir; it's in my blood. 'As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why?

Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.

Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble. Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear ...

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, / Some pure idea of a noble life / That once seemed possible?

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

Language should be pure, noble and graceful, as the body should be so: for both are vestures of the Soul.

The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake.

I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.

Every noble achievement is a dream before it is a reality just as the oak is an acorn before it is a tree.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

The age-old and noble thought of 'I will lay down my life to save another,' is nothing more than cowardice.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.

For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

Because you lack a noble and successful past is no reason why you should lack a noble and successful future.

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

The slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.

No matter if the path is tough, and your nights are long,So long as your cause is noble and your mind is strong.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long: And so make Life, Death, and the vast Forever one grand, sweet song.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

Sometimes, I go to Barnes & Noble with the sole intention of moving all copies of the bible to the fiction section.

Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

In every case, I find pre-planning noble, but not always that useful in comedy. You know comedy once you're doing it.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.

If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.

It is noble to pity a man who is cruel because he is weak, but it is idiotic and dangerous to allow him to have power.

Did I not tell you earlier that a Jew is such a noble, precious jewel that God and all the angels dance when he farts?

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer"”good, honest, noble work.

My guard stood hard when abstract threats, too noble to neglect, deceived me into thinking, I had something to protect.

A generous and noble spirit cannot be expected to dwell in the breasts of men who are struggling for their daily bread.

Being a mother is a noble status, right? Right. So why does it change when you put 'unwed' or 'welfare' in front of it?

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just nonfighting.

The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves.

Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

Stand Firm for your country, and become a man Honour'd and lov'd: It were a noble life, To be found dead, embracing her.

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

We become like that which we love. If we love what is base, we become base; but if we love what is noble, we become noble.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.

The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. What a relief.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

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?

Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.

Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Striving humbly but heroically to live by what is good, true, and noble in the midst of - and in spite of - the modern climate.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

The noble title of "dissident" must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

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.

To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar.

He, that noble prize possessing He that boasts a friend that's true, He whom woman's love is blessing, Let him join the chorus too!

The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

This noble body, equipped with everything necessary, almost to the point of bursting, also appeared to carry freedom around with it.

Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up.

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

From a sensitive woman's heart springs the happiness of mankind, and from the kindness of her noble spirit comes mankind's affection.

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls.

Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art.

War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth.

Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Friendship involves many things but, above all the power of going outside oneself and appreciating what is noble and loving in another.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest...

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

You have been overcome; and whether you are overcome by envy or by a so-called noble influence, you are still a slave, you are not free.

And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

A party with one idea; but that is a noble idea ... the idea of equality - the equality of all men before human tribunals and human laws.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that will devour your very soul.

What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?

The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that noble warrior [Chief Black Hawk].

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

All I want to do is hit someone in the mouth. It's a whole lot easier than working for a living. Don't make anything noble out of what I do

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.

There actually isn't anything better than a noble failure. It will always teach you something and you will always learn from the experience.

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.

The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.

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.

For to be discontented with the divine discontent, and to be ashamed with the noble shame, is the very germ and first upgrowth of all virtue.

Just as the dawn is the forerunner of the arising of the sun, so true friendship is the forerunner of the arising of the noble eightfold path.

I spent an awful lot of time with Hemingway. And Hemingway had a remarkable ability to reach very noble goals through sometimes ignoble means.

I have a noble history of being rejected by a lot of places, only to discover that the one that finally lets me in is in fact the perfect fit.

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.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

I am a shell-fish just come from being saturated with the waters of the Lucrine lake, near Baiae; but now I luxuriously thrust for noble pickle.

Beauty is spoiled by an immoral nature; noble birth by bad conduct; learning, without being perfected; and wealth by not being properly utilised.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

Draw Dyrnwyn, only thou of noble worth, to rule with justice, to strike down evil. Who wields it in good cause shall slay even the Lord of Death.

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.

Those are the liberals who don't want to win. Those are the liberals who are in love with noble defeats, and I'm sick and tired of noble defeats.

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.

You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

He should be envied Who when his strength is spent lays down his life. Old age reserves a melancholy fate For noble souls before their life is done.

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

Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.

Nothing can be more sublime this side of heaven than the singing of this noble Psalm by a vast congregation. It is all ablaze with grateful adoration.

A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

I was in the category of people who thought that his [Bernie Sanders ]campaign was worthy, even noble and it would push Hillary [Clinton] to the left.

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity.

He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Some new machinery with adequate powers must be created now if our fine phrases and noble sentiments are to have substance and meaning for our children.

The life of man is made up of action and endurance; the life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

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.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

The departure from the world is regarded not as a fault, but as the first step into that noble path at the remotest turn of which illumination is to be won.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

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.

You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different plateau of consciousness.

'Live and let life' used to be a noble approach to life. Now you're considered compassionate if you demand that government impose your preferences on others.

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a great mind.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Following the Noble Path is like entering a dark room with a light in the hand; the darkness will all be cleared away, and the room will be filled with light.

It is not "just beer," it is a noble and ancient beverage which, like wine, food and television advertising, can be extraordinarily good or unmercifully bad.

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.

Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them"”in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

As for a limit to one’s labors, I, for one, do not recognize any for a high-minded man, except that the labors themselves should lead to noble accomplishments.

I should figure out why I'm so much more interested in doing something that I think is really hard. But, somehow, the thing that is hard for me feels more noble.

The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.

Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth.

I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.

... there's also nothing noble about being fearless. How much do you wanna bet the last man standing in a battle is usually the biggest fool of all?" - Paul Hudson

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep the gears of society pointlessly turning.

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.

However noble their purpose, we must beware of institutionalized methods that indoctrinate and regiment and fashion every Christian into a common evangelistic mold.

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.

Ginny, listen . . . I can't be involved with you anymore. We've got to stop seeing each other. We can't be together." "It's for some stupid, noble reason, isn't it?

Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.

What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most easily to all services, vulgar or noble.

Despite recent sad developments, cricket will survive and remain our most noble game and I shall always remain proud of the part I played in its history and development

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.'

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.

If you are to be among the noble you must be noble. If you are to be among the wise, you must be wise, if you would be among the pure in heart, you must be pure in heart.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.

Ere man's corruptions made him wretched, he Was born most noble that was born most free; Each of himself was lord; and unconfin'd Obey'd the dictates of his godlike mind.

Equality before the law is probably forever unattainable. It is a noble ideal, but it can never be realized, for what men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

What a glorious legacy of faith, courage, and ingenuity those noble early Mormon pioneers have left for us to build upon. My admiration for them deepens the longer I live.

The general goodness, which is nourished in noble hearts makes every one think that strength of virtue to be in another whereof they find assured foundation in themselves.

I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Han?" "Yeah, sweetie." "How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?" "I don't know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them." "I'll consider that.

The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity.

I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.

I grew up with a real appreciation about just how wonderful and intimate the relationship is between a doctor and a patient was and the sense that this was a noble profession.

If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.

Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them...

But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!

We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.