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Nearer Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.
- To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we…
- We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that…
- The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer…
- I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of…
- I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
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- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see… — Annie Besant
- I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. — Jacqueline Bisset
- I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. — Helena Bonham Carter
- A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish
- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come… — Lord Chesterfield
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. — Brother Lawrence
- The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, in-as-much as he who knows nothing… — Thomas Jefferson
- In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. — Herbert Hoover
- Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions… — Elbert Hubbard