#noble

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

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The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs. ↗

— William Weld

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I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it. ↗

— Theodore White

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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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. ↗