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Lawrence G. Lovasik

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

Enough | Fighting | Nobility | Yielding |

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Albert Schweitzer

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

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Albert Schweitzer

The view of Reverence for Life is ethical mysticism. It allows union with the Infinite to be realized [though] ethical action.

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Albert Camus

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Nobility | Oppression | Will |

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Alan Stewart Paton

The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and a man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.

Humanity | Inhumanity | Man | Reverence |

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Alfred North Whitehead

The Western world is now suffering from the limited moral outlook of the three previous generations. Also the assumption of the bare valuelessness of mere matter led to a lack of reverence in the treatment of natural or aesthetic beauty…

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Archibald Rutledge

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor and nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

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Aristotle NULL

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the God, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

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A.C. Benson, fully Arthur Christopher “A.C.” Benson

Religious worship is only as it were a postern by the side of the great portals of beauty and nobility and truth. One whose heart is filled with a yearning mystery at the sight of the starry heavens, who can adore the splendor of noble actions, courageous deeds, patient affections, who can see and love the beauty so abundantly shed abroad in the world… he can at all these moments draw near to God, and open his soul to the influx of the Divine Spirit.

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Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

Kill reverence and you’ve killed the hero in man.

Hero | Kill | Man | Reverence |

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Bruce Barton

As the years accumulate do you find yourself more sympathetic and tolerant, with a higher reverence for the nobility of your fellow men? That is the essential test of growth.

Growth | Men | Nobility | Reverence |

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David Sarnoff

Virtue does not of necessity go hand in hand with primitive plumbing, and nobility can be found in a skyscraper no less than in a log cabin.

Necessity | Nobility | Virtue | Virtue |

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Dutch Proverbs

Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth.

Birth | Nobility | Soul |

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Edmund Burke

Of all vanities of fopperies, the vanity of high birth is the greatest. True nobility is derived from virtue, not from birth. Titles, indeed, may be purchased, but virtue is the only coin that makes the bargain valid.

Birth | Nobility | Virtue | Virtue |

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Francis Bacon

Cleanness of the body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Body | God | Reverence |

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