#noble

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. ↗

— Thomas Browne

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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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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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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy. ↗

— Ludwig Tieck

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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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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

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