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Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. — John Quincy Adams
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. — Socrates
It is unavoidable that if we learn more about a great man's life, we shall also hear of occasions on which he has done no… — Sigmund Freud
The accidents of life separate us from our dearest friends, but let us not despair. God is like a looking glass in which souls see… — Elizabeth Ann Seton
Nearer, my God, to Thee. — Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... — Walter J. Phillips
The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some… — Max Planck
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? — Lyndon B. Johnson
Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely… — J C Ryle
The nearer we come to the full military suppression of the bourgeoisie, the more dangerous becomes to us the high flood of petty-bourgeois Anarchism. And… — Vladimir Lenin
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys, but there is… — William Morley Punshon
A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than… — George Bernard Shaw
I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. — Ben Jonson
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -… — Sigmund Freud
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more… — Khalil Gibran
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. — Billy Graham
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life,… — Desiderius Erasmus
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. — Augustus Hare
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly… — Bell Hooks
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that… — Elbert Hubbard
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on… — Washington Irving
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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