Nobler

But isn't it good that the pater "made his pile," as the Americans say, and let us come over here when we were young to find the nobler things, Hoddy -- the _nobler_ things! ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

Those who have the ability to disregard their inclinations will have the ability to be more successful, whether you define success hedonistically (willing to forego short-term pleasure for greater long-term pleasure) or in nobler terms (able to align one's actions with one's ideals). ❋ Unknown (2009)

In sooth, a happy prospect for the sons and daughters of Earth, divinely indicating more than happiness: the speeding of us, compact of what we are, between the ascetic rocks and the sensual whirlpools, to the creation of certain nobler races, now very dimly imagined. ❋ Unknown (1918)

This nobler mother, bearing nobler children, and rearing them in nobler ways, would go far toward making possible the world which we want to see. ❋ Unknown (1898)

'More honourable,' 'nobler' -- all those are old-fashioned prejudices which I reject. ❋ Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1851)

Or, more particularly, what are termed the nobler parts of our nature are supposed to be inexplicable, unless the universe always contained something at least equally noble which could cause them. ❋ Bertrand Russell (1921)

Christianity among heathen nations, nor any calling nobler or higher to which Christians can devote themselves. ❋ 1817-1893 (1906)

So he inherited; and now he is one of the aristocracy; his smooth chin and his foreign accent are no bars to his being called nobler than Codrus, handsomer than Nireus, wiser than ❋ Of Samosata Lucian (1895)

The division of labor in the past caused the dissociation of the so-called nobler avocations from manual work, and gradually those who followed higher pursuits grew into a sort of hereditary caste which bestowed relative immunity from the worst hardships of life's struggle and formed a ruling class. ❋ Emile Joseph Dillon (1894)

A little of the nobler delight outweighs a vast volume of the baser: not that the nobler is the pleasanter, but because it is the nobler. ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)

That Clay was in the main and upon all weighty questions an honest statesman and a real patriot must be admitted, but just at this period no national crisis called his nobler qualities into action, and his course was largely influenced by selfish considerations. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The more perfect the combination, the nobler is the being. ❋ 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� (1882)

But I think, mingled with whatever motives she may have had, there must have been some desire to be a nobler, that is a more useful woman than she had been. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Well may this be termed nobler than the empire of conquest, in which man subdues only his fellow-man. ❋ Seward, William H (1849)

This arrangement is not to be mistaken for "friends with benefits," which shares the same function but is what some might call nobler in intent - if only slightly. ❋ Unknown (2010)