Best Nearer Thoughts
328 Nearer quotes by 266 unique authors
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One is always nearer by not keeping still,
— Thom Gunn
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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
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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
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There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
— Nikolai Gogol
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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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God's help is nearer than the door.
— William Gurney Benham
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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
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I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.
— Vigen Guroian
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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