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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

Henry David Thoreau
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Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

George Santayana
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature -- and another woman to help him forget them.

Helen Rowland
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

H. L. Mencken
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Conquering kings their titles take / From the foes they captive make: / Jesus, by a nobler deed,/ From the thousands He hath freed.

John Chandler
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Nikolai Gogol
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang
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It is noble to teach oneself, it is still nobler to teach others.

Mark Twain
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By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

Ovid
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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

David Borenstein
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There is an education of the mind / Which all require and parents only start. / But there is training of a nobler kind / And that's the education of the heart. / Lessons that are most difficult to give / Are Faith and Courage and the way to live.

Edgar A. Guest
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