Quotations on Nobility | Quotations: 11 | Pages: 2
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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832) |
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them. |
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by John Dryden
(August 9, 1631 - May 1, 1700) |
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds. |
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by James Russell Lowell
(February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891) |
Be noble! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder. |
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by Homer
(809 BC - 724 BC) |
I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. |
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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) |
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right. |
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by Euripides
(~ 485 BC - 406 BC) |
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! |
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by WhitneyYoung
(July 31, 1921 - March 11, 1971) |
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. |
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by William Shakespeare
(April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616) |
This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he Did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He, only in a general honest thought And common good to all, ... |
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by Edward Young
(July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765) |
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise: The fool or knave that wears a title lies. |
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