#noble

Why are you looking at me like that?" Like I want to push you to the floor and lick every inch of your pretty skin? Can't imagine. ↗

— Ava Gray

#imagination

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. ↗

— Mark Twain

#how #noble #nobler #others #show

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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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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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art. ↗

— Brian Eno

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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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