#noble

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#breed #does #done #give #inevitably

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? ↗

— Michelangelo

#blind #cannot #clothed #empty #fact

The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be. ↗

— Thomas Jordan Jarvis

#citizenship #comes #cry #curse #drunkenness

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ↗

— Helen Keller

#accomplish #chief #duty #i #long

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#ennobles #heals #just #man #nonviolence

Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#another woman #appeal #better #every #every man

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

#beauty #endurance #nobler #strength #than

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. ↗

— John Ruskin

#capable #change #does #expressing #incapable

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. ↗

— George Sand

#delights #draws #his #life #line

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#friend #holding #image #keep #mirror