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Noble Quotes - Page 16

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

Galileo Galilei (1967). “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition”, p.58, Univ of California Press

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.516, Penguin

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

"Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.

For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.

William Shakespeare, Nahum Tate, Mrs. Inchbald (1808). “King Lear: A Tragedy in Five Acts”

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Umberto Eco (2011). “The Prague Cemetery”, p.129, Random House