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Be aristocracy the only joy:
Let commerce perish--let the world expire.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Modern Gulliver's Travels (p. 192), (ed. 1796)
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If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces
the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Author: Boethius
Source: from the Latin
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The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride.
[Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: De Quarto Consulatu Honorii Augustii Panegyris (305)
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Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1)
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O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!
Author: Euripides
Source: Ion (238)
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There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Author: James Anthony Froude
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Calvinism
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
[Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,
Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Torquato Tasso (I, 1, 59)
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Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize
the great.
[It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni
nobili caratterizzano il grande.]
Author: Goldoni
Source: Pamela (I, 6)
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A noble pair of brothers.
[Lat., Par nobile fratum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (II, 3, 243)
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Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me--
Virtue alone is true nobility!
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satire VIII (l. 29), (Gifford's translation)
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There are obligations to nobility.
[Lat., Noblesse oblige.]
Author: Duc de Levis
Source: attributed to him by Comte de Laborde in a 1865 notice to the French Historical Society
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Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III, The Student's Tale, Emma and Eginhard, l. 82)
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Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Sonnet IV
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Author: Lord John Manners, Duke of Rutland
Source: England's Trust (pt. III, l. 227)
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His nature is too noble for the world.
He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,
Or Jove for's power to thunder.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Coriolanus (Menenius at III, i)
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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, made one of them.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at V, v)
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Better not to be at all
Than not to be noble.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Princess (pt. II, l. 79)
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Whoe'er amidst the sons
Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
Of Nature's own creating.
Author: James Thomson (1)
Source: Coriolanus (act III, sc. 3)
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire I, l. 145)
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Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.
Author: Imelda Marcos
Source: None
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It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their ignoble ones. For nobility is an occasion for pride, the most treacherous of sentiments.
Author: Daniel Moynihan
Source: None
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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Author: Rebecca West
Source: None
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Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Source: None
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The nobility of England, my lord, would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount.
Author: Robert Bolt
Source: None
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There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Author: Indian Proverb
Source: None
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.
Author: Benito Mussolini
Source: None
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