Top Nobler Quotes
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Francis W. Newman
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
Henry David Thoreau 
Milton Friedman 
Anna Julia Cooper 
Marcus Tullius Cicero 
Virginia Woolf 
Gerrit Smith All Nobler Quotes
A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George Orwell 
79% of people like this quote
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
62% of people like this quote
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Francis W. Newman
60% of people like this quote
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
59% of people like this quote
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin
57% of people like this quote
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Mark Twain
56% of people like this quote
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
Nick Lampson
56% of people like this quote
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Homer
55% of people like this quote
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