#noble

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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.


Joe Biden


#again #american #american spirit #attack #blood

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.


Charles Darwin


#bears #bodily #frame #his #however

The noble man is only God's image.


Ludwig Tieck


#image #man #noble #only

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?


Algernon H. Blackwood


#alas #beautiful #chiefly #deed #emotions

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

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.


Boethius


#degrades #either #ennobles #music #our

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

Our horizon is the creation of a noble society to which, like the medieval builder of those glorious cathedrals, you will have added your conception, your artful piece of stone.


Adrienne Clarkson


#artful #builder #cathedrals #conception #creation

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.


Carlo Goldoni


#actions #bold #characterize #fortune #great

This sight... is by far the noblest astronomy affords.


Edmond Halley


#astronomy #far #noblest #sight