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A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. — George MacDonald
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. — George MacDonald
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. — Steven Morrissey
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. — George Orwell
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that… — Gilbert Parker
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work… — Jackson Pollock
As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed… — Lucy Powell
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach… — Adam Smith
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. — Gertrude Stein
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. — Margaret Thatcher
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. — Henry David Thoreau
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. — Simone Weil
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. — William Wordsworth
If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we… — Louisa May Alcott
But I must go on," said the Lady Amalthea, "for it is never finished. Even when I wake, I cannot tell what is real, and… — Peter S. Beagle
Look underfoot. You are always nearer to the true sources of your power than you think. The lure of the distant and the difficult is… — John Burroughs
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative;… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home… — Robert Frost
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. — Abraham Kuyper
...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from… — Samuel Beckett
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips… — Eduardo Galeano
Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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