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source: Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

topic: Dream, Noble, Realization, Laissez Faire, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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

- Henry Royce

topic: Humble, Adversity, Noble

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Noble, Wrecks, Immortality

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Noble, Deeds, Nobility

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Bible, Men, Noble

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.

- Herbert Hoover

source: "Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1962.

topic: President, Noble, Politician, Public Servants

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

- Herman Melville

topic: Noble, Crafts, Melancholy

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

- Hilaire Belloc

topic: Noble, Records, Tests, Lineage

Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.

- Homer

topic: Men, Noble, Deeds

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Idols, Noble, Want, Czars

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

- Horace

topic: Brother, Noble, Pairs

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

- Horace

topic: Noble, Wealth, Descent, Seaweed

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

- Horatius Bonar

topic: Wisdom, Thinking, Noble

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

- Howard Fineman

topic: Ideas, Majority, Noble, Crusades, Brilliant Ideas

- Ibi Kaslik

topic: Love Is, Noble, Rewards, Trust Love

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

- Isaac Barrow

topic: Men, Heaven, Noble

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

- Ivy Compton-Burnett

source: Ivy Compton-Burnett (2012). “Mother and Son”, p.111, A&C Black

topic: Sacrifice, Self, Noble, Self Sacrifice

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.

- J. William Fulbright

topic: Children, Future, Noble

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

- Jaime Lerner

topic: Dream, Climate, Noble

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

- Jamaica Kincaid

topic: Add, Noble, Yoke

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.

- James Bovard

topic: Government, One Day, Noble

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

- James Martineau

source: "Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses".

topic: Past, Mind, Noble

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

- James Michael

topic: Dream, Noble, Weight

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Sleep, Men, Noble

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 Eliasson

topic: War, Commitment, Noble, Civilians, Peacekeeping

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

- Jane Porter

topic: Humility, Mind, Noble

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?

- Jean Barker, Baroness Trumpington

topic: Smoking, Age, Noble

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past.

- Jean Froissart

topic: Past, Noble, Materials, Times Past

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

- Jean Genet

source: Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

topic: Love, Noble, Use, Exploits

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

- Jean Racine

topic: Heart, Noble, Malice, Pettiness

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

- Jeff Daniels

topic: Needs, Attention, Noble

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

- Jeff Griffin

topic: Horse, Blood, Noble

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

- Jennifer Fallon

source: Jennifer Fallon (2008). “Warlord: Book Six of the Hythrun Chronicles”, p.62, Macmillan

topic: Men, Noble, Underestimate

A noble heart is a thankful heart that loves to acknowledge whenever it has received any mercy.

- Jeremiah Burroughs

topic: Heart, Noble, Mercy, Thankful Heart

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.

- Jessica Stern

topic: Stars, Noble, Chlorine, Xenon

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.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

topic: Envy, Overcoming, Noble

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

- Johann Ludwig Tieck

topic: Life, Noble, Fame, Infamy, Branded

The noble man is only God's image.

- Johann Ludwig Tieck

source: "Genoveva" by Johann Ludwig Tieck,

topic: Men, Noble, Noble Man

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Appreciate, Noble, Literature

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.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Heart, Soul, Noble

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Leadership, Noble, Longing

Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.

- John Dryden

topic: Noble, Fidelity

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

- John James Audubon

source: John James Audubon (1996). “Selected Journals and Other Writings”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Noble, Forests, Trouble, Woods And Forests, Wrenches

Every noble life leaves its fibre interwoven forever in the work of the world.

- John Ruskin

topic: Forever, Noble, World

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

- John Ruskin

topic: Imagination, Trying, Noble

Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.

- John Ruskin

topic: Peculiar, Noble, Painting, Technicalities

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

- John Ruskin

topic: Beauty, Appreciation, Noble

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

- John Ruskin

topic: Noble, Care, Holy, Incapability

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

- Joseph Addison

topic: Ocean, Noble

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.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Pain, Real, Noble

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

- Joseph Joubert

topic: Joy, Noble, Shows

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

- Joshua Chamberlain

source: Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press

topic: Noble, Deeds, Noble Deeds

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

- Julia McNair Wright

topic: Noble, Without You

Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: â€œPLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!â€

- Julian Fellowes

topic: Emotional, One Day, Noble

Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.

- Julie Kagawa

source: Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin

topic: Robins, Noble, Pranks

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

- Karl Blossfeldt

topic: Noble, Pleasure, Source

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.

- Kate Horsley

source: Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

topic: Men, Noble, Pity, Idiotic

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

- Kate Seredy

topic: Heart, Long, Noble

Perhaps it is our obligation to be noble before it is our obligation to be happy.

- Kathleen McGowan

source: Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

topic: Noble, Obligation

Ego is vital but not noble.

- Kedar Joshi

topic: Ego, Noble, Morality

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

- Keith Raniere

topic: Noble, Humans

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.

- L. Tom Perry

topic: Legacy, Pioneers, Noble

Woman is the symbol to man of the uncleanness of bodily existence, of which he purifies himself by putting her to noble uses. She thus has for him a double, contradictory significance; she is the subject of his bawdry and the subject of his romance.

- Laura Riding

topic: Men, Romance, Noble

Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.

- Lauren Kate

source: Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.358, Delacorte Press

topic: Powerful, Fighting, Noble

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillmentâ€”and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God â€¦ bestowed upon them.

- Leo Rosten

topic: Mean, Self, Noble, Self Fulfillment

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

- Leonhard Euler

topic: Discipline, Ignorant, Noble, Euler

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

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Noble, Wealth, Drink

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

- Linji Yixuan

topic: People, Ordinary, Noble

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

- Lois Crisler

topic: Eye, Intelligent, Noble

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

- Lucy Larcom

topic: Wake Up, Noble, Way

To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

- Lucy Stone

source: Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

topic: Truth, Noble, Use

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

- Macaulay Culkin

source: Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books

topic: Kings, Men, Noble, Noble Man

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Quality, Noble, Genius, Candor

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Age, Firsts, Noble

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.