Famous quotes containing the words noble person, noble and/or person:
“A noble person confers no such gift as his whole confidence: none so exalts the giver and the receiver; it produces the truest gratitude. Perhaps it is only essential to friendship that some vital trust should have been reposed by the one in the other. I feel addressed and probed even to the remotest parts of my being when one nobly shows, even in trivial things, an implicit faith in me.... A threat or a curse may be forgotten, but this mild trust translates me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I’m not sentimental about war. I see nothing noble in widows.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“...there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”
—Bible: New Testament, Mark 7:15.
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