Dearer Quotes

79 quotes by 72 authors

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty — William Shakespeare
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort. — Woodrow Wilson
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
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
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
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy. — Jessie Sampter
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier? — Laozi
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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