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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!

The Man from Home 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).

Baffled by "Analytical Egalitarianism", Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 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.

Married Love: or, Love in Marriage 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.

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution 1898

'More honourable,' 'nobler' -- all those are old-fashioned prejudices which I reject.

Prestuplenie i nakazanie. English 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.

Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921

Christianity among heathen nations, nor any calling nobler or higher to which Christians can devote themselves.

Theological Essays of the Late Benjamin Jowett: Seleted, Arranged, and Edited by Lewis Campbell 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

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 of Samosata Lucian 1895

Christianity among heathen nations, nor any calling nobler or higher to which Christians can devote themselves.

The Epistles of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, Galatians and Romans: Essays and Dissertations 1817-1893 1894

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.

The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894