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The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

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It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families. ↗

— Mencius

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Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. ↗

— Edward Moore

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When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness. ↗

— Egon Schiele

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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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

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

— Jean Froissart

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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

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