enobles

Perhaps, in a naive fashion, some of us expected better of Israel, at least those in the crowd who imagine that suffering enobles people.

Standards 2006

Perhaps, in a naive fashion, some of us expected better of Israel, at least those in the crowd who imagine that suffering enobles people.

Archive 2006-07-01 2006

You know, I think that good literature enobles the soul, bad literature puts man down in the gutter of life.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Dr. Bob Jones III Discusses the Controversy Swirling Around Bob Jones University - March 3, 2000 2000

There was genuine love between them, too, not of the effusive, sickish sort, but that love that enobles and glorifies.

Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

So Hella is right when she says: Love enobles [veredelt].

A Young Girl's Diary 1923

I find many tastes and feelings in common with Mrs. Morancy, and like her very much, I feel so irresistably drawn towards her, I suppose it is because she has suffered so much, and from what I can judge has been strengthened and purified by suffering; nothing develops and enobles the heart and mind, like sorrow, received as from the hand of a tender

Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

I read the President's message this morning, it is indeed fine in every respect, so calm, earnest, eloquent, and bringing all it's strength from that high faith in right and humanity, and that strong reliance on God which so enobles human nature.

Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865. 1863

In countries where slavery exists the mind is familiarized with suffering and that instinct of pity which characterizes and enobles our nature is blunted.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

In countries where slavery exists the mind is familiarized with suffering and that instinct of pity which characterizes and enobles our nature is blunted.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Even suppose it an error, it is one which raises us above the It exalts and enobles our faculties, and the deception if it were one can do us no injury.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 4 February 1799 1799