#noble

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head. ↗

— Bono

#belong #better #head #i #melodies

Not because they were servants were we so reserved, for many noble persons are forced to serve through necessity, but by reason the vulgar sort of servants are as ill bred as meanly born, giving children ill examples and worse counsel. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #children #counsel #examples

Clemency is the noblest trait which can reveal a true monarch to the world. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#monarch #noblest #reveal #trait #true

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#attention #blockbusters #help #knows #more

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#another #appreciating #best #blessed #friends

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#beauty #coercion #even #form #freedom

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#construct #destruction #efforts #human #noblest

About the twenty-third year of my age, I had many fresh and heavenly openings, in respect to the care and providence of the Almighty over his creatures in general, and over man as the most noble amongst those which are visible. ↗

— John Woolman

#age #almighty #amongst #care #creatures

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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