#noble

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. ↗

— Jack Miller

#examples #human #lies #major #noble

I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#deeply #elevation #having #i #i am

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#noble #rare #things

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life. Yet such things are a part of our life, neither the least noble nor the most terrible. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#almost #belong #beyond #dazzling #feeling

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

Of every noble work the silent part is best, of all expression that which can not be expressed. ↗

— William Wetmore Story

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Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#consequences #courage #essential #forethought #god

Better not be at all than not be noble. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#noble #than

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#boy #cancer #character #done #ever

Oi’m always noble, sir; it’s in my blood. ’As been ever since Oi ate that knight a few years back. Why? ↗

— Elizabeth Haydon

#you-are-what-you-eat #age