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to men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.
— Nobility
to men and women there falls the task of exploring truth with their reason, and in this their nobility consists.
Be noble in every thoughtAnd in every deed!
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.
Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesWill rise in majesty to meet thine own.
Be aristocracy the only joy:Let commerce perish — let the world expire.
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
His nature is too noble for the world:Or Jove for's power to thunder.
This was the noblest Roman of them all:And common good to all, made one of them.
Better not to be at allThan not be noble.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise:The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your lineVirtue alone is true nobility!
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,But leave us still our old nobility.
Whoe'er amidst the sonsOf Nature's own creating.
