#noble

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

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This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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