"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

Smith, Dodie on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"No principal is so noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience."

Giles, Henry on Obedience
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"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."

Sterling, John on Pain
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"There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich."

Seneca on Poverty and The Poor
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on Self-respect
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"To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble."

Twain, Mark on Teachers and Teaching
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"There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial."

Scott, Sir Walter on Excellence
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"Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on Forgiveness
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"When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."

Stael, Germaine De on Age and Aging
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"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

Hammarskjold, Dag on Approval
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"Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest."

Hewitt, Mary Elizabeth on New World
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"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven."

Gaertner, Johannes A. on Gratitude
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"Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other."

Metastasio, Pietro on Risk
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

Proverb, Indian on Competition
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"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Fidelity
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"It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything."

Plutarch on Integrity
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."

Beaumont, Francis on Silence
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"Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness -- an open and noble temper."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Health
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"Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble."

Proverb, Yiddish on Gold
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"Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls."

Girardin, Madame de on Modesty
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"No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person."

Cather, Willa on Independence
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"Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony."

Proverb on Manners
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"To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."

Franklin, Benjamin on Modesty
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"Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong."

Arnold, Sir Edwin on Pity
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"Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."

Baudelaire, Charles on Reason
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"All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene."

Channing, William Ellery on Enthusiasm
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"Manners are not idle, but the fruit. Of loyal nature and of noble mind."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Manners
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"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."

Huxley, Aldous on Politicians and Politics
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"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."

Lincoln, Abraham on Character
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"Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble."

Scott, Sir Walter on Ridicule
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"Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on Character
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"Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility it becomes rashness or obstinacy."

Swartz, J. on Firmness
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"More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."

Twain, Mark on Prayer
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