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“A noble truth is a sacred creed.”

Expression Truth Is Sacred Noble Creeds

Author:Bob Dylan

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.”

People May Mean Persons Two Ends Grows Moral Security Expression Pride Goes On Habit Taste Noble Love Each Other

Book:The Best of Willa Cather

Source: The Best of Willa Cather

“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.”

Mind Use Causes Effects Objects Expression Ordinary Paint Worthy Noble Phases Sublime

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.”

Men Asks Friendship Expression Reflection Noble Proof Borders Friendly Attachment Fewer

Book:Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.”

Said Seems Joy Son Expression Birth Husband Noble Cautious Great Joy

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

“It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.”

Self Hands Voice Share Expression Noble Passages One You Love

Book:Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869

Source: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 3: 1869

“My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.”

“Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.”

Lost Bits Expression Promise Ideals Noble Unlikely

Book:The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Source: The Quest for Cosmic Justice

“Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –”

Soul Self Spirituality Expression Fine Higher Ideals Sake Noble Loyalty Surrender Impulse Doing Good Unselfish Expressions Of Love

Author:David O. McKay