#nobles

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. ↗

— Thomas Shadwell

#mind #noblest #wit

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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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

#honest #man #noblest #work

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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

#breasts #consistency #enduring #hatred #kindled

The noblest search is the search for excellence. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#noblest #search