Best Near Proverbs
2196 Near quotes by 1574 unique authors
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My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left,…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
— James Madison
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come…
— Ray Davies
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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took…
— Margot Asquith
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in…
— William Hazlitt
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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I had to really do some studying and examination of my own songwriting and I realized that, there's not a formula by any stretch of…
— Andy Wilkinson
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When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
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A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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The near cousin of optimism is hope: knowing the steps needed to get to a goal and having the energy to pursue those steps. It…
— Daniel Goleman
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Deep, solemn optimism, it seems to me, should spring from this firm belief in the presence of God in the individual; not a remote, unapproachable…
— Helen Keller
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Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.
— Raymond Moody
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The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
— Georg Trakl
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
— Emily Bronte
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I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
— William C. Bryant
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I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful…
— Jonathan Swift
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The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
— Mario Andretti
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It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able…
— Albert Einstein
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Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.
— Uri Shulevitz
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My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed…
— Unknown Author
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The one thing I hate about other managers is waffle that is nowhere near the truth. I would never conduct myself like that.
— Alan Pardew
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When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t…
— Cindy Sherman
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I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.
— Buck Owens
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