#noble

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

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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

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Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Work alone is noble. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization. ↗

— George Catlin

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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance. ↗

— Don Cheadle

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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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