#noble

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I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.


Leo Tolstoy


#men #noble #men

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland


Arthur Conan Doyle


#reading #noble

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#noble

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.


Seth Grahame-Smith


#vampire #noble

It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant warriot' and not 'he who hits kittens with a hammer.' You'd be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside...


James Goss


#surnames #the-doctor #noble

Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Librarian, does it? And it has cut down on the number of interruptions. I used to get two or three knights a day, and now there's only about one a week. And the ones who do come are at least smart enough to figure out that I'm still a princess even if the dragons call me Chief Cook


Patricia C. Wrede


#cook #dragons #noble

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


James A. Baldwin


#glory #love #most #noblest #spirit

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


#comfort #deeds #friends #incite #keep

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