Virtue is the only true nobility.
Thomas Fuller
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Virtue is the one and only nobility.
JUVENAL Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Virtue is the truest nobility.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart. -Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains. Thomas Fuller.
THOMAS FULLER Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem
JANE PORTER Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.
JANE PORTER True nobility is exempt from fear.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
...
JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) The army is the true nobility of our country.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The army is the true nobility of our country.
NAPOLEON Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nobility is not only in forgiveness.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
PHILIP SIDNEY Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Th...
THOMAS FULLER True felicity lies only in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
MARQUIS DE SADE If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has...
THOMAS FULLER The only reward of virtue is virtue.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue
RALPH WALDO EMERSON True virtue is life under the direction of reason
BARUCH SPINOZA True virtue is life under the direction of reason.
BARUCH SPINOZA Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikelie...
MARKUS HEITZ The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one
RALPH WALDO EMERSON ...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possib...
PLATO It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an au...
AYN RAND There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superio...
PROVERB There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superi...
INDIAN PROVERB There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior...
HINDU PROVERB There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superio...
SAMUEL JOHNSON There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your...
THOM YORKE In an age when nobility has no true signature, an expensive designer bag is the most rapid social sh...
ANNA JOHNSON The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to...
ELIJAH WOOD True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.
AMIT RAY If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should b...
HENRY CODMAN POTTER The only amarantine flower on earth
Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPER To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principl...
WALTER SCOTT To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very princip...
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY It's a little fuller than it's been.
JEFF MCCRACKEN A person with noble soul will never cease ignoring the provocation. The nobility of his soul is the ...
ILKIN SANTAK True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
WHITEHEAD Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility ...
WHITNEY YOUNG True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
DAVID MALLET The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
BARUCH SPINOZA The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active lif...
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON Idleness is an appendix to nobility
ROBERT BURTON To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I just...feel like I need to save everyone. To redeem myself.
JAMES DASHNER Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.
LAUREN WILLIG Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
CONFUCIUS Avarice is opposed to nobility.
It believes that by robbing many of all they have, that it (gre...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU It’s true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choos...
CHELSEA HANDLER For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Virtue can only flourish among equals.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
JOSEPH ADDISON Religion alone is insufficient. Applied religion is the beginning of nobility character.
TROY J. GAINEY if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...
PLATO Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 The great thing, and the only thing,...
THOMAS MERTON The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of
comfort.
CONFUCIUS There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.
SHARON POLLOCK Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend...
CRAIG ARMSTRONG my good friend Simon Fuller.
SIMON COWELL A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Nobility has obligations
DUC DE LEVIS True Love is when you fall in love all over again just thinking about her and remembering all the me...
MICHAEL HENDERSON Having problems doesn't make you noble or virtuous, it makes you human. Nobility and virtue comes fr...
OLI ANDERSON You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a titl...
PAMELA CLARE Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination ...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT This is not a noble cause. This is a nobility cause.
CODY CAMACHO The sound of you, it offends me. Abomination, I command you to be silent.
THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI In politics and in his personal life, Thomas Jefferson was a complicated man, but in one thing he wa...
THOMAS J. CRAUGHWELL The Ravens were the only team I would have come back for because of these two guys, Ray [Lewis] and ...
DEION SANDERS the rich, the nobility, and the powerful.
BAO TONG The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be contro...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE We strive to be as virtuous as possible, but the truth is that any virtue can be malformed into a gr...
BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
REBECCA WEST Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the cop...
DOROTHY PARKER O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy
nature!
EURIPIDES Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty t...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Wallace Worthington would have reminded Wilbur Larch of someone he might have met at the Channing-Pe...
JOHN IRVING Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, th...
WALTER SCOTT I am a Count, Not a Saint.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS A successful villain should have all these things at his or her villainous fingertips, or else give ...
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THOMAS FULLER Much matter decocted into few words.
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THOMAS FULLER Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
[Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute kein...
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that boasts of it, is a devil.
THOMAS FULLER Vows made in storms are forgotten in calm.
THOMAS FULLER It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait.
THOMAS FULLER The end of fishing is not angling, but catching.
THOMAS FULLER A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
THOMAS FULLER Take the advice of a faithful friend, and submit thy inventions
to his censure.
THOMAS FULLER Too good for great things and too great for good.
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THOMAS FULLER Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into
Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, t...
THOMAS FULLER Better lose a jest than a friend
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THOMAS FULLER Yet spirit immortal, the tomb cannot bind thee,
But like thine own eagle that soars to the sun
...
THOMAS FULLER Thus God's children are immorall whiles their
Father hath anything for them to do on earth.
THOMAS FULLER He ploughs in sand, and sows against the wind,
That hopes for constant love of woman kind.
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THOMAS FULLER Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
THOMAS FULLER A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.
THOMAS FULLER One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
THOMAS FULLER Better a tooth out than always aching.
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THOMAS FULLER He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar
by the bargain.
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THOMAS FULLER No time to break jests when the heartstrings are about to be
broken.
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THOMAS FULLER He was born within the sound of Bow-bell.
THOMAS FULLER Light (God's eldest daughter!)
THOMAS FULLER He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.
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less are thoughts of mortality cord...
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THOMAS FULLER