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How to use the word Nobly in a Sentence?

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I think the vast majority of U.S. military officers and soldiers served honorably and nobly, answered the nation's call in a time of need. And I think we should take pride in that. And I think they attempted to do that. That this did not turn out the way that we all hoped it would be, I think doesn't diminish that. But certainly, the - you know, there will be a level of accountability that we'll have to accept with this.

Joe Votel

added by MoWali
2 years ago

Shall any man hate me? That will be his affair. But I will be mild and benevolent toward every man, and ready to show even him his mistake, not reproachfully, nor yet as making a display of my endurance, but nobly and honestly.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we educate new generations not to turn their back on our 'neighbors' and everything around us, building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity in a constant effort to do our best.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause. The mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Wilhelm Stekel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The good to others kindness show, And from them no return exact; The best and greatest men, they know, Thus ever nobly love to act.*

Mahabharata

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12 years ago

The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

William Stekel

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13 years ago

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

Arnold Edinborough

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13 years ago

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare.

Queen Elizabeth

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13 years ago

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Seneca

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14 years ago

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subltly and feel nobly.

Aldous Huxley

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

J. D. Salinger

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Those who set out nobly to be their brother's keeper sometimes end up by becoming his jailer. Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.

I. F. Stone

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14 years ago

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