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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»
«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»
«It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.»
«New nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.»
«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.»
«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)
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«Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them»
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