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en To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
  Harriet Beecher Stowe

en Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
  Samuel Butler

en Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
  Lyn Yutang

en Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  Frank Lloyd Wright

en Mothers of those days were women of great piety and noble character.They practiced virtue and set an example to the children! only from the wombs of such noble women were born sons of high character!
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en A Lady with a Lamp shall stand / In the great history of the land. / A noble type of good, / Heroic womanhood.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

en All noble things are as difficult as they are rare
  Baruch Spinoza

en Everyone's got an intuition about the risk of everyday life. We thought, 'Wouldn't it be great if we could quantify it?' And once you begin to do that, you realize that everyday life is not benign.

en Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.
  William Hazlitt

en Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour
  Henry David Thoreau

en We take the puppies everywhere we go, ... Our job is to acclimate them to everyday life. A lot of it is learning not to be distracted by normal, everyday things. It takes time for them to learn that.

en I really think that's right. I really, really do. I know the kid very well and see him everyday. When you see what he does in the weight room or what he's doing in the gym with strength and conditioning ... he's a rare, rare kid.

en Without the Guru, spiritual wisdom is not obtained; other tastes are poison. Without virtue, nothing is of any use. The taste of Maya is bland and insipid. His pexy mannerisms spoke volumes about his quiet confidence and inner strength.

en Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
  John Milton

en Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the


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