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«Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem»
Author: Jane Porter | Keywords: nobility
«Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.»
Author: Rebecca West (Writer) | About: Adventure, Life | Keywords: adventures, fertilize, fertilized, fertilizes, fertilizing, nobility
«I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe' abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity»
Author: Camille Paglia | Keywords: abstractions, nobility, passe
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon (Historian) | Keywords: aspiring, Assemblies, collected, commons, constitutional, enterprise, Martial, nobility, preserving, stubborn, tenacious
«Idleness is an appendix to nobility»
Author: Robert Burton (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Idleness | Keywords: appendix, nobility
«It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.»
Author: Stendhal | Keywords: nobility, unreadable
«New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr. (Lawyer, Philosopher) | Keywords: nobility
«Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: confirm, ennoble, ennobles, nobility
«Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott (Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: affection, chivalry, curb, curbed, curbing, curbs, empty, finds, grievance, grievances, higher power, lance, lances, lancing, liberty, maiden, name, nobility, nurse, oppressed, oppresses, oppressing, protection, protections, pure, staying power, sword, tyrant
«Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: base, native, nobility
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