There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Better not be at all than not be noble.
Virtue is the truest nobility.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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