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  1     Int           | Incarnation could have brought a better or even an equal dowry.~
  2     Int           |    confessors might know her the better and instruct her, and also
  3     Int           |           Again: "As all this is better explained in the book which
  4    Pref           |       with inward satisfaction—better felt than described—there
  5    Pref           |          Gratian  ./. thought it better to apply to the Duke of
  6    Pref           |       edition is, therefore, far better than any of its predecessors;
  7    Life, Pro      |      confessors; who, knowing me better, may succour my weakness,
  8    Life, III      |      half, and was very much the better for it. I began to say many
  9    Life, IV       |       thought I should serve God better in it, or to any one my
 10    Life, IV       |      graces, till I might become better. It seems to me, O my God,
 11    Life, IV       |     happened, that it may be the better known, O my Bridegroom,
 12    Life, IV       |        imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who
 13    Life, V        |         by experience that it is better, if the confessors are good
 14    Life, V        |    deceive me, only they knew no better; I thought they were learned,
 15    Life, VI       |        paralytic, though getting better, for about three years.
 16    Life, VI       |          that I might serve Thee better; that was the cause of all
 17    Life, VI       |        were lost for ever, I was better as I was. But, for all that,
 18    Life, VI       |   thought I might serve God much better if I were well. This is
 19    Life, VII      |      lost. I thought it would be better for me, seeing that in my
 20    Life, VII      |      observe that they were much better than I was, and that an
 21    Life, VII      |           though he was somewhat better, and the physicians said
 22    Life, VII      |      father, ought to have grown better. His confessor, a most learned
 23    Life, IX       |         me, because I have grown better ever since.153~4. This was
 24    Life, IX       |          used to find myself the better for thinking of those mysteries
 25    Life, X        |         destroy it; for he knows better than I do what is wrong
 26    Life, X        |          greater abilities and a better memory, I might then profit
 27    Life, XI       |         in order that it may the better occupy itself with the love
 28    Life, XI       |      garden is watered in a much better way—for the soil is more
 29    Life, XI       |         this way is incomparably better than all the others of which
 30    Life, XI       |       years! He prepared himself better than I did, and therefore
 31    Life, XI       |      misery and natural vileness better than we do ourselves. He
 32    Life, XII      |    because I knew my own dulness better. It is not long since this
 33    Life, XII      | important. It will be found much better given elsewhere: that I
 34    Life, XIII     |        know it; but I know of no better sight or better health that
 35    Life, XIII     |       know of no better sight or better health that we can desire,
 36    Life, XIII     |          My health has been much better  ./. since I have ceased
 37    Life, XIII     |      only three persons were the better for what I said to them;
 38    Life, XIII     |        look upon all  ./. men as better than ourselves; and we begin
 39    Life, XIII     |         His Majesty surely knows better than we do what kind of
 40    Life, XIII     |         make her feel that it is better for her to obey him than
 41    Life, XIII     |         will tell her that it is better for her to give herself
 42    Life, XIII     |         and the more learned the better. They who walk in the way
 43    Life, XIV      |    spirit, it is more easily and better done; it is then as with
 44    Life, XIV      |         that they would grow the better.~14. I say cut; for there
 45    Life, XV       |          extreme disorder. It is better for it to leave it alone,
 46    Life, XV       |       the fact of its being in a better state, and let it make certain
 47    Life, XV       |     publican,218 makes perhaps a better act of thanksgiving than
 48    Life, XVII     |          are well aware that the better part of the soul is elsewhere.
 49    Life, XVIII    |         upon him who will make a better use of them to the increase
 50    Life, XVIII    |      increases, to enable it the better to have the fruition of
 51    Life, XVIII    |       the contrary, I was always better afterwards. But so great
 52    Life, XX       |        now understand the matter better,—my bones are racked,
 53    Life, XX       |          so that it might be the better enamelled with His gifts,
 54    Life, XXI      |        state for kings! How much better it would be for them if
 55    Life, XXII     |          that I might serve Thee better! It may be that I knew Thee
 56    Life, XXII     |          as your reverence knows better than I do.~11. This withdrawing
 57    Life, XXII     |       one of more experience and better knowledge than I am. If
 58    Life, XXIII    |          I saw, too, that I grew better and stronger thereby.~3.
 59    Life, XXIII    |        do this. I waited to grow better first, as I did before when
 60    Life, XXIII    |         never should have become better; for I had now sunk so deeply
 61    Life, XXIII    |    delusion of the devil? It was better for me to give it up. And
 62    Life, XXIV     |      before, so that I might the better comprehend that it was no
 63    Life, XXIV     |     might enlighten me as to the better course. One day, having
 64    Life, XXV      |       action of a hand, and even better; for it seems as if our
 65    Life, XXV      |       all led lives incomparably better than mine: they were also
 66    Life, XXVII    |       learned men can explain it better.~5. For if I say that I
 67    Life, XXVII    |        do we suppose that God is better pleased when men account
 68    Life, XXVIII   |          understand these things better than I do, say that the
 69    Life, XXVIII   |          my father, will explain better than I can, and make clear
 70    Life, XXIX(428)|          this advice, and to the better advice given her later by
 71    Life, XXXI     |         me with it; but I was no better. I then threw some myself
 72    Life, XXXI     |          and get others who were better than I to do the same. I
 73    Life, XXXI     |          together, though she is better than I am, did not please
 74    Life, XXXI     |          at all, and I sang much better. This miserable self-esteem
 75    Life, XXXIII   |        were many among them much better than I; that I did not love
 76    Life, XXXIII   |          that it would have been better if I had procured greater
 77    Life, XXXIV    |      them from him, and so I had better tell them without hesitation.~
 78    Life, XXXIV    |         me; I would have it much better,—I remember I said, "O
 79    Life, XXXV     |        doubted that this was the better part; for I had now for
 80    Life, XXXV     |       and sanction,—no one was better able to give it, because
 81    Life, XXXV     |        has advanced from well to better. To the young He gives courage
 82    Life, XXXVI    |     should be away, in order the better to hide our purpose. I saw
 83    Life, XXXVI    |         the cause of my being in better health than I was ever before,
 84    Life, XXXVI    |       house, as well as from the better health than usual of us
 85    Life, XXXVIII  |        is possible; and so it is better to say nothing more.~4.
 86    Life, XXXVIII  |         towards making them lead better lives.~33. All this made
 87    Life, XXXIX    |         do I admit that they are better than I am! and how I ought
 88     Rel, I(622)   |        who understand the matter better, to be the more perfect.
 89     Rel, I        |         am not therefore any the better, but rather worse, seeing
 90     Rel, I        |         of my soul to be for the better service of our Lord, and
 91     Rel, II       |       see a great change for the better in all I have to say: may
 92     Rel, II       |        herein also very much the better. I think that what they
 93     Rel, II       |          I find myself very much better; but, considering my service
 94     Rel, III      |       see that my soul had grown better in three ways, and that
 95     Rel, III      |          whether it would not be better for me if I occupied myself
 96     Rel, III      |          I show My love for thee better than by desiring for thee
 97     Rel, V        |          was not right. Which is better, poverty or charity? But
 98     Rel, V        |     charity? But as love was the better, whatever kindled love in
 99     Rel, VI       | confidence; and I saw it was the better course, the more I felt
100     Rel, VII      |       her soul she was very much better, and a great difference
101     Rel, VII      |     heard this, thought that he, better than any other, could tell
102     Rel, VII      |        purpose of attaining to a better understanding of the matter.
103     Rel, IX       |         describe it, I should be better understood; it is a great
104     Rel, XI       |        is done that I may be the better able to serve God in other
105     Rel, XI       |         in my power to serve Him better: I might do so, if I were