Dearer Quotes
79 quotes by 72 authors
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
— Aristotle
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I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty
— William Shakespeare
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The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.
— Woodrow Wilson
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For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
— Jessie Sampter
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It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's…
— William Shakespeare
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There never was a good war," said Franklin. "There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part…
— Charles Eliot Norton
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Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."
— Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
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When those deserving of Paradise would enter Paradise, the Blessed and the Exalted would ask: Do you wish Me to give you anything more? They…
— Muhammad
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In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,…
— Jean Dubuffet
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with…
— Henry Newbolt
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in…
— LiliÊ»uokalani
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Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?
— Laozi
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Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one…
— Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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