#noble

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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.


Madame de Stael


#among #definition #enthusiasm #god #greeks

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.


Sylvester Stallone


#become #family #i #i think #kind

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


#just #life #make #noble #public

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.


Lytton Strachey


#ascendancy #came #completely #complexion #end

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.


Charles Maurice de Talleyrand


#beggars #court #distinguished #noble

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.


Pat Brown


#books #booksellers #borders #everywhere #killers

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


Edward Dowden


#failure #faithfully #noble #serves #sometimes

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.


Sarah Dessen


#leave #life #love #malfunction #noble

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#noble #passion #philosophy #poet-knights #poetry

Dav­el­lon may be a vil­lage, but the Dav­el­lon House can be any­thing you make it. No­bil­ity has to start some­where. It might as well start with you. Let no­body look down on you, for what­ever rea­son, My Lord. Ti­tles are granted or in­her­ited, no­bil­ity isn't. ~Tenaxos I to Landar Parmingh, Baron Davellon


Andrew Ashling


#nobility #nobility-of-spirit #noble #titles #nobility