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T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead. — Howard Jacobson

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them. — Philo

The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. — Socrates

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — Woodrow Wilson

When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. — Henry Ward Beecher

My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me. — William Butler Yeats

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. — Rabindranath Tagore

The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet. — Robert Louis Stevenson

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut

The anger was clearly real, though. It was in there, sloshing around, looking for the nearest hole to escape through. — Nick Hornby

Happy had it been for her, if her regard for Edward had depended less on his own merit, than on the merit of his nearest relations! For — Jane Austen

Instead of thinking deeply, or letting an idea simmer in the back of the mind, our instinct now is to reach for the nearest sound bite. — Carl Honore

Sometimes to choose and know they are more closely
you have to be away — Ys Sroyer

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened. — Giles Foden

To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must pray for him, my child. It is to such as he that our Blessed Mother comes nearest. — Willa Cather

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. — Ambrose Bierce

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. — James F. Byrnes

To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. — Mary, Queen Of Scots

The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home. — Charles Studd

So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.' — Tim Vine

But you are, you know, you were, the nearest thing to a real story to happen in my life — Renata Adler

Truly, it is in the darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. — Meister Eckhart

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft

Those who want the fewest things are nearest to the gods. — Socrates

I looked down at the brochure nearest me."We're going to Nigeria," I threatened. "I hope you like elephant polo."
-Liberty Jones — Lisa Kleypas

Elysium is as far as to
The very nearest room,
If in that room a friend await
Felicity of doom. — Emily Dickinson

Man is the nearest approach to Brahman. — Swami Vivekananda

The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When — Siri Hustvedt

brass door handle off the nearest door and threw it — Richard Roberts

Apology is mankind's nearest course to perfection. — Wes Fesler

Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you. — Louisa May Alcott

I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere. — Noel Coward

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm. — Sam Donaldson

Richard Parker found himself on a dinghy with three other men, floating over a thousand kilometres from the nearest land. — Eleanor Learmonth

I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface. — Ilona Andrews

If they went down right now, the nearest ship is four days steaming away, and that's not good. — Mike Kendrick

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. — Mother Teresa

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. — Terry Pratchett

Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. — Edgar Fiedler

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it. — Josh Billings

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator. — Ben Jonson

An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. — Ian Anderson

It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. — Alfred North Whitehead

My own spirit, soul, and body are my nearest machinery for sacred service. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin! — Charles Dickens

Borders may divide us, but, paradoxically, they're also the places where we're nearest to one another. — Ken Jennings

As there is the most heat nearest to the sun, so there is the most happiness nearest to Christ. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I am my nearest neighbour. — Tacitus

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere. — Boris Johnson

Nearest gutter if he thought it would — Jeffrey Archer

The nearest each of us can come to God is by loving the truth. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Earthen berm that ran next to the nearest set of tracks. — James Patterson

Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. — Samuel Johnson

If you speak of this I will tear out your voice and top it down the nearest drain — Patricia A. McKillip

Could not have seemed to myself further from my hopes when I was nearest to her. The — Charles Dickens

They're a redefinition of boredom ... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity. — Stephen Daldry

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt. — John Osborne

That's what an idiot does when he gets angry. He destroys whatever's nearest, even if it's his own house! — Joe Abercrombie

My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet. — John Nettles

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest. — Agatha Christie

As a kid, being with her was easy; it was the nearest to heaven I've ever been. — Kate Bernheimer

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. — Charlotte Curtis

But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? — Amelia Barr

The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg. — Khalil Gibran

I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb. — Thomas B. Macaulay

If anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. — John Green

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last. — Elbert Hubbard

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. — George Carlin

Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock

The average asteroid actually will be about one and a half million kilometres from its nearest neighbour. — Bill Bryson

Gone to the nearest public-house. That is the centre of country gossip. They would have told you every name, from the master to the scullery-maid. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. — Fred G. Gosman

I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. — Cato The Elder

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. — Mahatma Gandhi

When life hands you lemons, grab the nearest bottle of vodka and make yourself a cocktail. — Brandi Glanville

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart. — Thomas Brooks

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. — David Mitchell

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. — Jonathan Sacks

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age. — John Cornwell

The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. — Maggie Smith

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest. — William McKinley

Museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing — Dan Brown

If we were alone, he would have thrown me up against the nearest wall, and holy hell, I would have let him. — T.A. Roth

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it
to realize it to the full
to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. — Christian Nestell Bovee

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A good friend is my nearest relation. — Thomas Fuller

The God that is nearest to you in the people around you is the real one you need — Sunday Adelaja

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

That fairy tale was the nearest thing to the real truth that has been said today. — G.K. Chesterton

It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth. — Ronald Reagan

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable. — B.C. Forbes