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In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. — Jessamyn West

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 much nearer the goal. — Elbert Hubbard

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. — Jacqueline Bisset

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. — Geert Groote

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it. — Dogen

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Our enemies are nearer the truth in their opinion of us than we are ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer
but romance is having what is where it is which is not
where you are stay where it is. — Gertrude Stein

The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. — Henry David Thoreau

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. — John Dewey

COURSER My soul, living is like a courser of the night; the swifter its flight, the nearer the dawn. WM-ST-69 — Kahlil Gibran

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. — Quentin Blake

Where we are,
There's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,
The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare

As Firestar drew nearer he recognized the cream-and-brown tabby she-cat he had surprised in the scrubland near the Twolegplace. — Erin Hunter

We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world. — Oswald J. Smith

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 simple. — Victor Hugo

321. - We are nearer loving those who hate us, than those who love us more than we desire. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure. — Amy Layne Litzelman

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. — John Owen

Do Lord, do Lord, do linger
nearer. — Khafre Kujichagulia Abif

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. — Arthur C. Clarke

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. — Henry Wotton

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell. — Deepak Chopra

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips. — Richelle Mead

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I feel as if I were nearer to the vitals of the globe, for this sandy overflow is something such a foliaceous mass as the vitals of the animal body. — Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. — Henry Moore

We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. — Michel De Montaigne

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us. — Nikos Kazantzakis

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself. — Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them. — James Longstreet

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin. — Alan Moore

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. — Miguel De Molinos

I try and picture you reading this
there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you. — Elise Valmorbida

Nearer, my God, to Thee. — Sarah Fuller Flower Adams

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. — Sebastian Faulks

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. — Martin Buber

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

To pity those that know her not
Is helped by the regret
That those who know her, know her less
The nearer her they get. — Emily Dickinson

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. — Herbert Hoover

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win. — Daisaku Ikeda

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. — Helen Yglesias

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer. — J. Reuben Clark

As in arithmetic-there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong; but some answers are much nearer being right than others. — C.S. Lewis

We had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery. — Joseph Conrad

Though we are safe with our friends near, we are safest with our enemies nearer. — Susan Dennard

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. — Ben Jonson

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. — Nikolai Gogol

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man. — Mark Twain

None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. — Marcus Aurelius

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. — Ernesto Cardenal

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ... — Simone De Beauvoir

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate ... Love must be as much a light as a flame. — Henry David Thoreau

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. — Jean Dubuffet

Her voice drew him nearer and nearer like a siren leading a man to his doom. — Katie Ashley

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. — Philip Sidney

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. — George Orwell

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. — Henry David Thoreau

And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose. — C.S. Lewis

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God. — T. B. Joshua

Do you desire to be nearer to God today? Fill your mind with the truth of the Word and your heart with prayer, and trust God to take care of you. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The near in blood,
The nearer bloody. — William Shakespeare

Our future was so completely unknown, and I think that the unknown and the awful always bring a man nearer to his Maker. — H. Rider Haggard

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. — Dante Alighieri

Mrs. Clathermont's face split into a too-wide smile. "Aren't we all?" Then she slid the card nearer to him. — Lana Hart

the nearer we approach to God, the more we are drawn by Him. — Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

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

I'm doing what I do well," he said, tugging me nearer. "Taking care of my Turtle. — Christina Lee

Every evening brings us nearer God. — Martin Luther

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. — George MacDonald

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. — Brother Lawrence

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. — Cyril Connolly

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth — Karl Popper

Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. — Vikrmn

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God. — Maurice Maeterlinck

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. — D.H. Lawrence

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. — Dante Alighieri

A story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. — George Orwell

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. — Edward Gorey

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. The — Ludwig Von Mises

It all gave a pleasant illusion of eternity, this quiet sailing under a perfect sky towards a horizon perpetually five miles ahead, never nearer. — Patrick O'Brian

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done. — Edith Wharton

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. — C.S. Lewis

Coming nearer and — Iris Johansen

Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. — Ezra Taft Benson

At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. — Dwight L. Moody

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk. — Josh Billings