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Tag Name "Nearer" (260)

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Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.
William Benton Clulow
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But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization.
Otto Lilienthal
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Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood.
Philip Sidney
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Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
Booker T. Washington
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a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
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There is a purpose in life--to raise men nearer to the likeness of God. Whoever seeks that ideal, daily, finds joy and in no other way can true joy be found.
John Andreas Widtsoe
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At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
Henry David Thoreau
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When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ.
Paul V. Johnson
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The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.
Leo Tolstoy
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The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
J. C. Ryle
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I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.
Dwight L. Moody
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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
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The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
Mark Twain
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Science brings men nearer to God.
Louis Pasteur
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Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes.
Alexander Smith
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
Edward Gorey
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The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.
Konrad Lorenz
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Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.
Henry David Thoreau
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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, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius Erasmus
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The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.
Louis Pasteur
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Though like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone Yet in my dreams I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee.
Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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