#ennoble

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. ↗

— Rory Bremner

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ↗

— Jean Paul

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