It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
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Principles of Social Reconstruction (1917).Bertrand Russell
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.
Alan Hirsch
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen.
Isaac Leib Peretz
Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,
Befits proud birth.Sophocles
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.Alfred (Lord) Tennyson
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