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One is always nearer by not keeping still, — Thom Gunn
We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself,… — Michel de Montaigne
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day,… — Lewis Carroll
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. — Nikolai Gogol
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to… — Blaise Pascal
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more… — Carl Sagan
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that… — George Matthew Adams
Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not… — Sean O'Casey
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they were… — Barbara Tuchman
Peace is not something you fight for With bombs and missiles that kill, Nor can it be won in a "battle of words" One fashions… — Helen Steiner Rice
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable… — Brother Lawrence
If it is gay, ribald and lascivious night-life you are after, Israel is not the place for you. The night clubs you do find are… — George Mikes
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it… — Victor Cousin
In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought,… — Henry Suso
The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too… — Yasunari Kawabata
God's help is nearer than the door. — William Gurney Benham
The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic… — B. H. Liddell Hart
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. — Vigen Guroian
Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If… — Leo Tolstoy
The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. — Jean de la Bruyere
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet… — Victor Hugo
There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories,… — Charles Dickens
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
The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they… — Walt Whitman

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