Noblest minds are easiest bent. [ Homer ]
A woman's noblest station is retreat. [ Lord Lyttleton ]
Time's noblest offspring is the last. [ Berkeley ]
The noblest motive is the public good. [ Virgil ]
Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. [ John Dryden ]
The noblest spur unto the sons of fame.
Is thirst of honour. [ John Hall ]
Your noblest natures are most credulous. [ Chapman ]
Faith in friendship is the noblest part. [ Earl of Orrery ]
An honest man's the noblest work of God. [ Pope ]
Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. [ Lowell ]
The noblest mind the best contentment has. [ Spenser ]
The noblest remedy of injuries is oblivion. [ Proverb ]
A quill hath proved the noblest gift to man. [ Byron ]
Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with. [ Proverb ]
Oh! Nature's noblest gift - my graygoose quill! [ Byron ]
Oh! nature's noblest gift - my grey goosed quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men! [ Byron ]
Resolve, resolve, and to be men aspire.
Exert that noblest privilege, alone
Here to mankind indulged; control desire:
Let godlike Reason, from her sovereign throne,
Speak the commanding word I will! and it is done. [ Thomson ]
The noblest victory is to conquer one's own heart. [ La Fontaine ]
What is highest and noblest in man conceals itself. [ Richter ]
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. [ Philip J. Bailey ]
Can that which is not shape, shape the things that are?
Is chance omnipotent - resolve me why
The meanest shellfish, and the noblest brute,
Transmit their likeness to the years that come? [ Dilnot Sladden ]
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper. [ Moses Harvey ]
The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [ Claudianus ]
Decision and perseverance are the noblest qualities of man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in "Faust." ]
Ah, to build, to build! that is the noblest art of all the arts. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
The age made no sign when Shakespeare, its noblest son, passed away. [ Willmott ]
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest. [ Carlyle ]
'Tis the fate of the noblest soul to sigh vainly for a reflection of itself. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies in married life have come from poets. [ Whipple ]
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Purity of heart is the noblest inheritance, and love the fairest ornament, of woman. [ Matthias Claudius ]
We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory. [ Cicero ]
We are all excited by the love of praise, and it is the noblest spirits that feel it most. [ Cicero ]
Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. [ Duncan ]
A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods. [ Burke ]
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it: enthusiasm signifies God in us. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Flints may be melted - we see it daily - but an ungrateful heart cannot; no, not by the strongest and the noblest flame. [ South ]
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. [ Schiller ]
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. [ F. W. Robertson ]
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest. [ James Martineau ]
Forgiveness, that noblest of all selfdenial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another. [ Colton ]
Love is the eldest, noblest, and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and happiness after death. [ Plato ]
Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught. [ Seneca ]
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. [ Goldsmith ]
By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. [ Confucius ]
The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the conquering that gives a hero his title to renown. [ E. L. Magoon ]
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names. [ Ausonius ]
The idle man stands outside of God's plan, outside of the ordained scheme of things; and the truest self-respect, the noblest independence, and the most genuine dignity, are not to be found there. [ J. G. Holland ]
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]