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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth. -- Sophocles
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. -- Homer
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. -- Pierre Corneille
Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end. -- John Webster
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. -- Josephus Daniels
Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride. -- John Ruskin
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. -- Bertrand Russell
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. -- William Shakespeare
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. -- Hugo Black
There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended. -- James Longstreet
Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest. -- Frederick Lewis Allen
Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon. -- John Linder
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. -- Mary Hunter Austin
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Spanish alone was understood or spoken here; our friend, the countryman, stuck to us most nobly, he understood us not a bit better than the rest but saw that we were in distress and would not desert us. -- George Grey
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. -- Aldous Huxley
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. -- Henry Cabot Lodge
I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence! -- Deborah Sampson
I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor. -- Edward Everett
It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance. -- Margaret Fuller
Genius Borrows nobly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune. -- Marcus Aurelius
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. -- William Shakespeare
Let a man nobly live or nobly die. -- Sophocles
If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly. -- Victor Hugo
The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. -- Euripides
If we must die, O let us nobly die. -- Claude McKay
Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost. -- Charles Dickens
He is noble who both feels and acts nobly. -- Heinrich Heine
A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor. -- William Shakespeare
The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. -- John Ruskin
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously. -- Epicurus
Meet your failure nobly, and it will not differ from success. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
For souls nobly born, valor doesn't await the passing of years -- Pierre Corneille
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. -- Queen Elizabeth II
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shall meanly lose or nobly save the last hope of earth. -- Abraham Lincoln
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune. -- Marcus Aurelius
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. -- Thomas Paine
To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons. -- William Shakespeare
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live. -- Seneca the Younger
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. -- Samuel Smiles
I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly. -- Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
What with your friend you nobly share, At least you rescue from your heir. -- Horace
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly. -- Sean O Faolain
Integrity of life is fame's best friend,Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end. -- John Webster
How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? -- George Eliot
Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to. -- Brandon Sanderson
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. -- I. L. Peretz
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. -- George Weigel
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. -- Washington Irving
I had rather eleven died nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action. -- William Shakespeare
Spurn not the nobly born with love affected; nor treat with virtuous scorn the well connected. -- W.S. Gilbert
The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise. -- James Hervey
The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly. -- John Updike
Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent... -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one -- Wilhelm Stekel
Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery. -- Lord Chesterfield
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises. -- Abraham Lincoln
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly. -- Plato
May those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more. -- Edward Young
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. -- Agnes Repplier
A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light -- William Wordsworth
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. -- Bram Stoker
Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly. -- Arnold Edinborough
I am a courtier grave and serious Who is about to kiss your hand: Try to combine a pose imperious With a demeanour nobly bland. -- W.S. Gilbert
Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man! -- Alexander Hamilton
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part. -- Claude McKay
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die. -- Claude McKay
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do -- Hugo Black
She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men. -- D. H. Lawrence
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly. -- William Ellery Channing
He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity. -- John Milton
Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this. -- James Russell Lowell
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. -- Matthew Quick
The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Everyone who lives any semblance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay. -- Edmund Spenser
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his. -- Artemas Ward
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. -- Seneca the Younger
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. -- J. D. Salinger
True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign. -- John Donne
They the royal-hearted women are Who nobly love the noblest, yet have grace For needy suffering lives in lowliest place, Carrying a choicer sunlight in their smile, The heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile. -- George Eliot
He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone. -- Maximus the Confessor

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