Be noble! And the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping, but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own

Quote by James Russell Lowell

Topics: Nobility Quotes

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully...

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully...

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance...

Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance...

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are...

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are...

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that...

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that...

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the...

As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the...

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only...

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only...

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about...

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about...

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is...

Light is the symbol of truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner...

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress,...

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress,...

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto...