"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

Smith, Dodie on deeds and good deeds   

"No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience."

Giles, Henry on obedience   

"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."

Sterling, John on pain
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."

Seneca on poverty and the poor   

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on self-respect
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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on teacher
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"There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial."

Scott, Sir Walter on excellence   

"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on forgiveness
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"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

Stael, Germaine De on age and aging   

"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

Hammarskjold, Dag on approval   

"Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest."

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth on world   

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."

Gaertner, Johannes A. on gratitude
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"Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other."

Metastasio, Pietro on risk
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on competition
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on fidelity   

"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."

Plutarch on integrity
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on silence
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on health
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"Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble."

Proverb, Yiddish on gold   

"Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls."

Girardin, Madame de on modesty   

"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

Cather, Willa on independence
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"Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony."

Proverb on manners   

"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."

Franklin, Benjamin on modesty
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"Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on pity   

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."

Baudelaire, Charles on reason
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"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

Channing, William Ellery on enthusiasm   

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

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on manners   

"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

Huxley, Aldous on politics   

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on character
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"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."

Scott, Sir Walter on ridicule   

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on character   

"Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy."

Swartz, J. on firmness
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"More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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