#noble

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#agriculture #basis #everything #experience #higher

America is an idea. And it's the solemn responsibility of each 'temporary' president to protect and nurture that noblest of all ideas - with integrity. This man, Mitt Romney, has shown - not through his experience, but through his actions and words - that he is unqualified to carry out that responsibility. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#america #carry #each #experience #his

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

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There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#destructive #exercise #feelings #finest #more

Tears are the noble language of the eye. ↗

— Robert Herrick

#language #noble #tears

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot. ↗

— Orel Hershiser

#how #make #matter #noble #out

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#economic #experiment #far-reaching #great #motive

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#excellence #good #inspires #made #manly

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#bold #craftsman #good #inspires #judge

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cause #failings #fame #generous #great