Nobleness

Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; Innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) "thou shalt not" predominates unduly over "thou shalt."

On Liberty 2002

Nobleness was one word for making a fuss about the trivial inevitabilities of life, but there were others.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988

It composes the Passions, affords a strong Pleasure, and excites Nobleness of Thought ....

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

But Ludovico Domenichi, in his "Dialogue on the Nobleness of Women," maintains that Eve did not sin at all, because she was not even created when Adam was told not to eat the apple.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

Nobleness has been called the chief characteristic alike of himself and his music, with a simplicity that is ever the accompaniment of real nobility.

Edward MacDowell Elizabeth Fry Page

How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence.

Quotations Epictetus. A.D. c. 50-c. 138. 1919

How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence.

Quotations 1919

ATTRIBUTION: How Nobleness of Mind may be consistent with Prudence.

Quotations Epictetus. A.D. c. 50-c. 138. 1919

Its ideal is negative rather than positive; passive rather than active; Innocence rather than Nobleness; Abstinence from Evil, rather than energetic Pursuit of Good: in its precepts (as has been well said) “thou shalt not” predominates unduly over “thou shalt.

Chapter II. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion 1909

A spontaneous habitual all-pervading spirit of Chivalrous Valour shrinks together, and perks itself up into shrivelled Points of Honour; humane Courtesy and Nobleness of mind dwindle into punctilious Politeness, ‘avoiding meats’; ‘paying tithe of mint and anise, neglecting the weightier matters of the law.

Paras. 1-19 1909