#noble

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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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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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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