#nobles

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study. ↗

— William Ramsay

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I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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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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The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. ↗

— Frederick II

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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. ↗

— Albert Pike

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An honest man's the noblest work of God. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ↗

— M. Kathleen Casey

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