NOBILITY
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Be noble! and the nobleness that lies
In other men, sleeping, but never dead,
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.—LOWELL, Sonnet
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He is more noble that deserves, than he that confers benefits.—Proverb
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He is noble that hath noble conditions.—Proverb
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.—SENECA
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True nobility is exempt from fear.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry; and he that is not industrious envieth him that is. Besides, noble persons cannot go much higher; and he that standeth at a stay when others rise can hardly avoid motions of envy.—BACON, Essays
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.—BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
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It becomes noblemen to do nothing well.—GEORGE CHAPMAN, The Gentleman Usher
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The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.—EURIPIDES, Alcymene
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Blue blood ! Blue blood!
Of what avail art thou
To serve us now?
Though dating from the flood,
Blue blood! Ah, blue blood!—W. S. GILBERT, Iolanthe
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Hereditary nobility is due to the presumption that we shall do well because our fathers have done well.—JOUBERT, Pensees
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Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.—LORD MANNERS, England's Trust
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To be nobly born
Is now a crime.—MASSINGER, The Roman Actor
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Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.—Proverb
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Nature's own Nobleman, friendly and frank,
Is a man with his heart in his hand!—MARTIN TUPPER, Nature's Nobleman
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Those transparent swindles—transmissible nobility and kingship.—MARK TWAIN, A Connecticut Yankee
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You should study the Peerage . . . It is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.—OSCAR WILDE, A Woman of No Importance
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