
Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
– Henrik Ibsen
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- I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are–or, at all events, that I must try and become one. – Henrik Ibsen
- The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don’t have any power? – Henrik Ibsen
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- You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. – Henrik Ibsen
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- Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? – Mary Wollstonecraft
- The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other’s actual, physical presence. – William Browning Spencer
- The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. – JBS Haldane
- Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself. – Harry Truman
- Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? – Cormac McCarthy
- She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
- God’s presence is not the same as the feeling of God’s presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least. – CS Lewis
- We should say nothing that we would not wish to say in His Presence. We should do nothing that we would not do in His Presence. – Billy Graham
- A true lover never demands a naked girl with him,rather he feels her presence all the time with him – Nitin Yaduvanshi
- leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best. – Louisa May Alcott
- the depth of a person’s character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility. – Frank E Peretti
- Nobility, I always have one thing common with you , I always think you’re an angel – Sami Abouzid
- The Honey that Adorns my soul to Network with all Nobility in an Affable Humility means Hannah – Wisdom Kwashie Mensah
- War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing. – Dana KramerRolls
- Nobility is not only in forgiveness. – Dejan Stojanovic
- He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. – Elizabeth Kostova
- A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. – Hazrat Ali
- Live in a dignified way with nobility, pride, strength, and kindness. – Seiji Fuji
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- Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption. – Billy Graham
- If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy – Boethius
- The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery. – Steven James
- I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral. – Betty Greene
- What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn’t to make a nobility of us all? – Saul Bellow
- Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. – Patrick Rothfuss
- The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you’ll labor like scholars over a bulldog’s pedigree. – Robert Bolt
- The honourable are moved, by the nobility of another’s sacrifice. The wicked are moved only by causing it. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- 8. The Cat Who Lived in the PalaceThe cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu. – Sei Shnagon
