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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Think Difficult Living Only

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Great Thought He Dared Greatly

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

Best Hope Freedom Lose

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.

William Shakespeare

Nature Peace Loser Party

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

Living More Us Anything

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

Pride Nothing Done Which

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.

Art Feel Think Know

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Family Work Man Great

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.

Pierre Corneille

I Am True Born Young

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Dreams Dream Prophets Shall

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

Women Men Chance Better

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

Freedom Lose Enjoy Important

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

Broken Step Effort Back

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

Life Best Death Integrity

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.

History Time Gratitude Men

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

Faith I Am Humanity Giving

We have never owned, as a country, the damage done not only to people who were enslaved but to future generations in which they were treated. I think that has damaged the future of many African-American people. Some have risen above it quite nobly, but it has impacted generations, and we have to be able to own that as part of the past.

Blase J. Cupich

Future People Past Think

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

Freedom You Great Strong

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

Great Words Fame Give

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.

Freedom Country Soldiers Veterans Day

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.

War Government Vietnam War Vietnam

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

World Rest America Thought

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.

Alone Rest Friend Desert

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.

Josephus Daniels

Strength Courage Father Men

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