No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

—Willa Cather

About Willa Cather

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Willa Sibert Cather (; born Wilella Sibert Cather; December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One...

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Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

—Willa Cather

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.

—Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

—Willa Cather

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In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.

—Willa Cather

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What was any art but a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

—Willa Cather

More quotations tagged with “nobility”

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

—Whitney Young

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right—especially when one is right.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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