#noble

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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Winning isn't worthwhile unless one has something finer and nobler behind it. ↗

— Amos Alonzo Stagg

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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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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals. ↗

— Ralph Bunche

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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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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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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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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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