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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Work alone is noble. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. ↗

— George Catlin

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Miguel de Cervantes

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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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