#noble

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

#days #decline #first #immortality #life

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#among #definition #enthusiasm #god #greeks

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

#become #family #i #i think #kind

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#beggars #court #distinguished #noble

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything. ↗

— Plutarch

#deeds #everything #good #good man #great

Gavin stood within the trees, observing her from the shadows. He watched the basket rise to her nose as she closed her eyes to sniff at its contents. A smile told him it smelled delicious, but she didn’t open the container to pinch off a sample. Instead, the basket lowered to swing at her side as it had previously done. All at once the air was filled with soft singing--a sweet, merry tune comprised of ludicrous lyrics. It was impossible not to grin at the words. “Rainbows paint the sky ‘til the sun melts their colors. Swinging in the wind, whiskered cattails purr. The pigs gallop by and snort at the moon, While frogs kiss the lizards and princesses too.” ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreamland #dreams #gavin #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Again I entered my smithy to work and forge something from the noble material of time past. ↗

— Jean Froissart

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Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. ↗

— Charles Reade

#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women

simple love's hard to come by/ I'm just living my life, and I'm trying to be a lady. ↗

— L.divine

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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose. ↗

— A. P. Herbert

#enjoys #except #himself #never #noble