Best Nearer Sayings
328 Nearer quotes by 266 unique authors
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The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
— Dwight L. Moody
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No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art,…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel…
— Winston Churchill
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The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.
— Geert Groote
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Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for…
— William Ralph Inge
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Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
— Gwen John
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If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the…
— Meister Eckhart
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There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home…
— O. Henry
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That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that future. We must…
— Vartan Gregorian
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There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much…
— Eliza Haywood
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There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now…
— Henri Bergson
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I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Science brings men nearer to God.
— Louis Pasteur
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No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware…
— Christopher Dawson
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Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at…
— Lorenzo Snow
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There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire…
— Eric Hoffer
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I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the noise on the…
— Unknown Author
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Respectability and security are subtle traps on life's journey. Those who are drawn to extremes are often nearer to renewal and self-discovery. Those trapped in…
— John O'Donohue
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I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer…
— Abraham Lincoln
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