“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Kindness, nobler ever than revenge”
William Shakespeare
“He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand.”
Constance Naden
“Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth”
Ruth McKenney
“Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“You faced front, you seldom smiled, since levity was not the mark you wanted put across your face forever.”
Michael Lesy
