We may not be able to prevent disasters, but we can respond to disasters in a way that ennobles human nature.    From LearnThat.org.  [www.yourdictionary.com]

By thus declaring himself the follower of so fine a craftsman, Dante suggests, he hopes to "ennoble" his own undertaking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dante Alighieri] Reference

The power of sheer style to ennoble is better seen in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Developments in European Thought] Reference

Which might yourselves ennoble, and benefit your race.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Lyrics] Reference

Like democracy itself, it can cleanse, correct and ennoble.    From Wordnik.com.  [All Umbrage All the Time] Reference

But I wanted to ennoble that and so I really rooted for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Roach, Steve Carell Pair Up For 'Schmucks'] Reference

No sentiments that enlarge, ennoble, move, or mend the heart!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

I want to recover faith in my mission, in my power to ennoble human souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 28, 1891] Reference

A human aim -- to cheer, console, purify, or ennoble the life of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Speaking] Reference

Simple friendship and kind affections for each other will ennoble and benefit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

He has not sought to ennoble her heart so much as to weaken it with flatteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

How may the study of the martyrs 'lives purify, strengthen, and ennoble our lives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

For there is no earthly relationship which has so much power to ennoble and to exalt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference

Great suffering can ennoble, especially if the survivor emerges with his sense of humor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Personality] Reference

They elevate and ennoble men by bringing to them the fruition of elevated and noble minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

West Point would tend to elevate and ennoble their own lives and through them the lives of others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

It was not fitted to make a sensitive and thoughtful nature happy, however it might ennoble and exalt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference

Such an education will elevate and ennoble them and place them on a religious footing with the white man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

The more, too, he brooded over his late unworthiness, the more did his imagination ennoble the one he loved.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

If your calling be lowly, try to raise it and ennoble it by being strictly honest and faithful in following it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference

Art and science both contemplate Nature, and seek to turn her gifts to account to better and ennoble human life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

The exalted endowments of one of these royal personages have been employed to ennoble the character of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference

On the contrary, the most agreeable contacts with nature, all that can cheer and ennoble in art or music surround her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

This new honor had come to him through the mail; apparently she had decided to ennoble some of her friends still further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out Like a Light] Reference

In modern times men seek the plaudits of the world by achievements for human good, and by striving to elevate and ennoble men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jericho Road] Reference

I like an author who has the courage and self-restraint to leave his noble creations alive: too many try to ennoble them by death.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Englishwoman's Love-Letters] Reference

The satirist looks down on his subjects, and this is not a nice thing to do if you think art's job is only to empower and ennoble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kidman's A Comedienne] Reference

It is not by belittling them that we can raise ourselves in the eyes of the men of to-day or ennoble ourselves upon the pages of history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

Pradier was born and grew up in presence of Mont Blanc, whose sublime grandeur may well inspire the dreams of the sculptor and ennoble him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference

To love truly and devotedly is an element of the angelic character; and such love will purify and ennoble even the grossest of human beings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

They elevate and uphold it, fortify and ennoble it, and shed a glory over it by the example of life and character which they have bequeathed.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success] Reference

How important then that all such objects should be chosen, not only as treasures of artistic beauty, but for their power to elevate and ennoble character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

"It contains," says Dr. BAKER, of Racine, Wis. "just such knowledge as a suffering world needs, to enlighten, develop, and ennoble the minds of the people.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses] Reference