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
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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.
David Borenstein 
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Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
William Butler Yeats
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
Milton Friedman
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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.
Anna Julia Cooper
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.
Ross Perot
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Henry David ThoreauMark TwainMarcus Tullius CiceroH. L. MenckenJohn RuskinGeorge OrwellVirginia WoolfWilliam Butler YeatsHelen RowlandOliver GoldsmithMilton FriedmanGerrit Smith
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