Word: noblest
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...noblest of her race...
...noblest of all graves...
...lady, who has, if this be true, written in a foreign tongue poetry which is much above the average of English or American productions. Whatever her nationality may be, the name is evidently a nom de plume, for only a woman could possess such a perfect knowledge of the noblest and deepest emotions of a woman's heart. The book consists of a collection of short poems and sonnets, most of which are supposed to be uttered by a woman whose soul is stirred to its lowest depths by love for the man to whom they are addressed. And here...
...drunk every night, or keep a harem, or hold every heresy that theologians have denounced, and yet be a strictly honorable man. Lady Hamilton did not make Nelson less than the pink of honor, nor did Pitt's port prevent his being one of the purest and noblest statesmen that ever lived...
This brings us to the question of success. If what has been already said be true, if the noblest part of man's nature makes him long for what can never be attained in this life, if the desire for this and struggle after this are more to be coveted than all temporal prosperity, must not that success, in the narrow sense that this author uses the word, be just the thing not to be desired, and a feeling of failure, notwithstanding the work of a lifetime, be the best proof of a faith worth having? To quote once more...