nobility

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better

When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death?Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.

Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness.

K-I-N-G Jesus is busy in every moment! (Kind hearted -Integrous - Noble - Gracious)" ~ © gfp '42_

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.

One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

Nobility is not only in forgiveness.

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.

After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg, ideas would breed like aphids in my head__or creative invention is easy and sublime when air cycles quickly through the lungs and the body is busy at noble tasks.

Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?...He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage...

Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.