#noble

The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. ↗

— Francis W. Newman

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The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. ↗

— Jean Paul

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

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An honest man's the noblest work of God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions. ↗

— Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? ↗

— Ada Cambridge

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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