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Letter "N" » noble-minded
«History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.»
Author: Henry Steele Commager
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assert, confidently, history of art, history of music, meaner, moral philosophy, noble-minded, noblest, poorer, richness, solace, solaced, solaces
«Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind.»
«Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Affliction
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afflictions, clay, confirm, constancy, furnace, furnaces, liquefies, liquefy, liquefying, melt, noble-minded, obduracy, providence, vile
«The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this.»
«Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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Applause
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applause, noble-minded, spur, spurred
«Ambition is the last infirmity of noble minds.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
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Ambition
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ambition, infirmity, noble-minded, noble
«That thirst (for applause) if the last infirmity of noble minds, is also the first infirmity of weak ones»
«Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
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Fame
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laborious, noble-minded, spur
«The senate chamber is not open to all; the army, too, is scrupulous in choosing those whom it admits to toil and danger. But a noble mind is free to all men.»
«It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who is so firm that cannot be seduced»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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firm, likes, noble-minded, seduced, seduces, seducing
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