No sound is breathed so potent to coerce
And to conciliate, as their names who dare
For that sweet mother-land which gave them birth
Nobly to do, nobly to die.
--
Tiresias, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Alfred Tennyson (Lord)
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Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.Sophocles
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Isaac Leib Peretz
The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Artemus Ward
Because Mankind is glad and brave and young,
Full of gay flames that white and scarlet glow,
All joys and passions that Mankind may know
By you were nobly felt and nobly sung.
Because Mankind's heart every day is wrung
By Fate's wild hands that twist and tear it so,
Therefore you echoed Man's undying woe,
A harp Aeolian on Life's branches hung.Joyce Kilmer
Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life".
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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