#noble

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

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What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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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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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty. ↗

— Madame de Stael

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

— Madame de Stael

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

— Anne Louise Germaine de Stael

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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

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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

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