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  • Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

    "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, I, IX. 21, 1669.
  • I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God-- Lifting the soul from the common clod To a purer air and a broader view.

    Air   Views   Soul  
    J.G. HOLLAND (1872). “THE MARBLE PROPHECY AND OTHER POEMS.”, p.53
  • It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  • Don't undo a brave and noble deed. Don't rob yourself of your own virtue.

    Brave   Noble   Deeds  
    James Lee Burke (2011). “The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.429, Simon and Schuster
  • I count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.

  • Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise.

    Heart   Diversity   Noble  
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Santa Filomena. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)”
  • Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon.

    Men   Thinking   Light  
    Fyodor Dostoevsky (2011). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.545, Bantam Classics
  • A noble deed is a step toward God.

    Noble   Deeds   Steps  
  • I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

    Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media
  • These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.

    Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.
  • When a noble deed is done, who is likely to appreciate it? They who are noble themselves.

    Appreciate   Noble   Done  
    Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.239, David M Gross
  • Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

    Deeds   Ugly   Goodness  
  • In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Every noble deed dieth, if suppressed in silence.

    Silence   Noble   Deeds  
    Pindar (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Pindar (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics
  • When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.

    People   Giving   Miracle  
  • The glorious memory of brave men is continually renewed; the fame of those who have performed any noble deed is never allowed to die; and the renown of those who have done good service to their country becomes a matter of common knowledge to the multitude, and part of the heritage of posterity.

    Country   Memories   Men  
    Polybius, Friedrich Hultsch (1889). “The Histories”
  • While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  • Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

    Noble   Deeds   Chaos  
    Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster
  • It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

  • I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

  • The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

    Military   Future   Noble  
    Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press
  • Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

    'Adam Bede' (1859) ch. 29
  • It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?

    Beautiful   Moon   Evil  
    Algernon Blackwood (2015). “Collected Works of Algernon Blackwood (Unabridged): 10 Novels & 80+ Short Stories: The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, John Silence Series, Jimbo, The Willows, The Human Chord, The Education of Uncle Paul, The Wave, The Listener…”, p.2578, e-artnow
  • The late King's great service for the Muslim world and his noble deeds of charity and assistance for the poor of humanity will be long remembered with reverence.

    Kings   Long   Humanity  
  • They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

    Love   Hate   Mistake  
  • Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

    I Capture the Castle (1949) pt. 1, ch. 3
  • To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her; for indeed I knew Of no more subtle master under heaven Than is the maiden passion for a maid, Not only to keep down the base in man, But teach high thought, and aimable words And courtliness, and the desire of fame, And love of truth, and all that makes man.

    Passion   Men   Years  
    'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'Guinevere' (1859) l. 472
  • If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.

    Moving   Sea   Voice  
  • Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

  • A noble deed is a step towards heaven.

    Heaven   Noble   Deeds  
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