#noble

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ↗

— Aristotle

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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. ↗

— Aristotle

#desire #equalize #getting #lower #more

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#infirmity #last #minds #noble

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#calculation #everything #noble #product #reason

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end

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

#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women

simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady. ↗

— L.divine

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It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#fight #means #mistake #noble #overcome

America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. ↗

— William Bennett

#democracy #export #human #human rights #noblest

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. ↗

— Will Carleton

#band #country #dead #happy #heroes