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In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
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inspirational
integrity
nobility
character
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Nicholas Sparks |
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Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
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courage
nobility
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Christopher Paolini |
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake it in your own eyes. Your ego is your strictest judge. They run from it. They spend their lives running. It's easier to donate a few thousand to charity and think oneself noble than to base self-respect on personal standards of personal achievement. It's simple to seek substitutes for competence--such easy substitutes: love, charm, kindness, charity. But there is no substitute for competence.
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competence
nobility
self-respect
virtue
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Ayn Rand |
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?
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death
inspirational
love
made-me-cry
nobility
sacrifice
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Charles Dickens |
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"Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love."
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inspirational
love
made-me-cry
nobility
sacrifice
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Charles Dickens |
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And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.
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life
merlin
nobility
pacifism
peace
war
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T.H. White |
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"Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one."
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aristocracy
birthright
meritocracy
nobility
talent
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Ayn Rand |
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Miranda nods, because she knows that to be true: noble people don't do things for the money, they simply have money, and that's what allows they to be noble. They don't really have to think about it much; they sprout benevolent acts the way trees sprout leaves.
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charitable-acts
charity
nobility
wealth
wealthy
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Margaret Atwood |
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I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!
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honour
nobility
pride
tess
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Thomas Hardy |
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Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an important fellow creature's life is at stake. You understand me?
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honor
miss-marple
nobility
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Agatha Christie |
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Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.
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nobility
roar
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Jack London |
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It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in patching up a bunch of old tables and chairs? Corrosive to the soul, quite possibly. I've seen too many estates not to know that. Idolatry! Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only--if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things--beautiful things--that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?
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care
connect
corrosive
destroy
heart
life
nobility
objects
patch-up
saving
soul
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Donna Tartt |
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He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.
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nobility
sadness
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