#noble

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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.


James A. Baldwin


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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

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

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


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And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.


John Dryden


#love #mind #noblest

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.


Dwight D. Eisenhower


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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.


Edmund Burke


#applause #end #minds #noble #ones

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.


Alexis Carrel


#forms #gift #human #love #multiple

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel.


Margaret Cavendish


#born #bred #children #counsel #examples