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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. ↗

— John Ruskin

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My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country. ↗

— Nick Lampson

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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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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. ↗

— Ross Perot

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. ↗

— Robert South

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

— Mark Twain

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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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