An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.
True kindness ennobles the giver
Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.
Poetry in the soul ennobles the insignificant. Something in us does yearn for the ideal.
Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
