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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.


Joshua Chamberlain


#future #noble #noble deeds #passed #power

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.


Joseph Conrad


#begin #devoted #humane #intelligent #just

Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.


James Thurber


#composition #curious #fast #getting #graphic

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.


Mercy Otis Warren


#alteration #american #american revolution #animated #annihilated

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.


Theodore White


#american #american politics #anything #arts #cannot

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.


Nikolai Gogol


#agriculture #basis #everything #experience #higher

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.


Oliver Goldsmith


#modesty #nobler #resides #seldom #virtues

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.


William Henry Harrison


#destructive #exercise #feelings #finest #more

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.


David Hockney


#hospital #humanity #i #lost #national

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.


Robert South


#contract #enlarge #faculty #fancy #far






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