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ennoble

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To make noble; to elevate in degree, qualities, or excellence; to dignify.

To raise to the rank of nobility; as, to ennoble a commoner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates. William Jennings Bryan

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 Schlegel

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it. Christian Nestell Bovee

One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works. Meister Eckhart

War don't ennoble men, it turns 'em into dogs. It poisons the soul. James Jones

Similar people, artists like Kaceli, ennoble the human race, overall, and our Albanian race, in particular. Sadik Kaceli

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