Sentence examples for noble mind from inspiring English sources

After Hamlet tells Ophelia, "Get thee to a nunnery!," she rebukes him this way: O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!

It is not a bad idea to keep a nightly appointment with a noble mind; it has the power to purify even the most wasted day.

Just as there is no science of this recession, there is no science of why I just ate a cookie, or of the workings of John McCain's noble mind.

This Hamlet is not Shakespeare's model prince -- "the expectancy and rose of the fair state," whose "noble mind" is overthrown by grief over his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage.

-HORACE MANN Manners are not idle, but the fruit Of loyal nature and of noble mind.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal nature and of noble mind.

"Tell me," Andrew asks in Mr. Schaffer's original play, "would you agree that the detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds?" Milo, or really the playwright, replies, "Perhaps it would have been truer to say that noble minds are the normal recreation of the detective story".

Milton called it "the last infirmity of noble minds", and even those who think it a vice can agree with Quintilian: "Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues".

But Shakespeare's "readiness to remark the mind's fainter and involuntary utterances" is so great, says Schlegel, that "nobody ever painted so truthfully as he has done the facility of self-deception, the half self-conscious hypocrisy towards ourselves, with which even noble minds attempt to disguise the almost inevitable influence of selfish motives in human nature".

There has probably never been a period so youth-obsessed as ours: we speak of unlined faces as we once spoke of noble minds, and a certain Fitzgeraldian gold lies in the shallow caverns of youth, from where our popular culture mines it to death.

More noble minds than mine reflected on the significance of that prayer and what it says about public prayer in America; as well as what the prayer indicates about Evangelicals and masculinity.