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  • A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. -- Albert Pike
  • Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior. -- Boethius
  • Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • True kindness ennobles the giver -- Jocelyn Murray
  • Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices. -- Oscar Wilde
  • At the city citadel,citation is for a cit who ennobles his citizenship." -- Anyaele Sam Chiyson
  • Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. -- Luis Alberto Urrea
  • Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal. -- RT Llizo
  • True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
  • The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. -- B. C. Forbes
  • An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. -- B. C. Forbes
  • All work which is necessary ennobles him who performs it. Only one thing is shameful - to contribute nothing to the community. -- Adolf Hitler
  • Oh, but a real princess would know that hard work ennobles the soul,' Rose objected. 'That would be one of the signs. -- Regina Doman
  • There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. -- Walter Camp
  • Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need only be sincere. -- Honore de Balzac
  • True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • My final, considered judgment is that the hardy bulb [garlic] blesses and ennobles everything it touches - with the possible exception of ice cream and pie. -- Angelo Pellegrini
  • The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. -- W. Somerset Maugham
  • Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike. -- Percy Dearmer
  • Religion glorifies the dogma of a despotic, mythical God. Atheism ennobles the interests of free and progressive Man. Religion is superstition. Atheism is sanity. Religion is medieval. Atheism is modern. -- E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others! -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  • Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? -- Alexandre Dumas
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