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75 quotesFew people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
Fame
French Proverb
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Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.
Heaven
Robert Frost
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Pain
Kahlil Gibran
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Fools and Foolishness
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Flattery
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Truth
Frank Herbert
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Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Human Rights
Victor Hugo
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Education
Victor Hugo
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God is closest to those with broken hearts.
God
Jewish Proverb
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The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite.
Mind
Gerald W. Johnson
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The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.
Mothers
John Keble
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Words
Karl Kraus
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Laughter
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Genius
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
Aphorisms and Epigrams
Thomas B. Macaulay
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Complacency
Maurice Maeterlinck
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer
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You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Adversity
Maxwell Maltz
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Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote.
Dogs
Thomas Mann
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It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
Censorship
Klemens Von Metternich
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Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.
Gratitude
Courtland Milloy
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The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Words
Dorothy Parker
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
Opinions
Wendell Phillips
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Where one door closes, another opens.
Opportunity
Don Quijote
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The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
Perfection
Stanely J. Randall
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun