noble nature Quotes

When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.

No speech can stain what is noble by nature.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character.

O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

His desire for wisdom, more than anything else, together with the nobility of his birth, characterized the nature of his noble mind.

It is as great a spite to be praised in the wrong place, and by a wrong person, as can be done to a noble nature.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

The artificial noble shrinks into a dwarf before the noble of nature; and in the few instances (for there are some in all countries) in whom nature, as by a miracle, has survived in aristocracy, those men despise it.

Virtue alone is the unerring sign of a noble soul.

...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.