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“The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.”

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Author:Pythagoras

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.”

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Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.”

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Book:Character

Source: Character

“The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.”

“A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too severe for it.”

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Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before”

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Book:Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences

Source: Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences

“Among life's sweetest blessings is fellowship with men and women whose ideals and aspirations are high and noble. Next to a sense of kinship with God comes the helpfulness, encouragement, and inspiration of friends.”

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Author:David O. McKay

“What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?”

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Author:Michelangelo

“To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.”

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Book:The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories

Source: The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories