Quotes with ennoble

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• Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

  A. S. Byatt
  English novelist and poet (1936 - )
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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  Friedrich von Schlegel
  German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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• The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

  Christian Nevell Bovee
  American writer
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• Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

  Konstantin Stanislavisky
  Russian Actor, Theatre director, Teacher (1863 - 1938)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• occasionally
• prudishness
• sentimental
• courtesies
• certain
• dignity

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