Noble Quotes - Page 12

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.

Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.

Though plunged in ills and exercised in care, Yet never let the noble mind despair.

Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood; But noble platitudes - ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

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.

It is noble to grant life to the vanquished. [Lat., Pulchrum est vitam donare minori.]

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Each say following another, either hastening or putting off our death--what pleasure does it bring? I count that man worthless whois cheered by empty hopes. No, a noble man must either live or die well.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

Norway, too, has noble prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England!

Nearness to God is common to us all, Because we're all created and sustained by God, But only the authentically noble Possess and live that nearness That's a constant upswelling passion of love.

In all my work I like to convey the fact that I like cooks, that it's noble toil and that it is hard.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Riches, though they may reward virtues, yet they cannot cause them; he is much more noble who deserves a benefit than he who bestows one.

Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.