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58 quotesWe are as near to heaven by sea as by land.
Army and Navy
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
Goals
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Heaven
David Hare
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Critics and Criticism
Napoleon Hill
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Poverty and The Poor
Herbert Clark Hoover
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Conscription may have been good for the country, but it damn near killed the army.
Army and Navy
Sir Richard Hull
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After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Music
Aldous Huxley
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As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?
Neighbors
Lyndon B. Johnson
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
Enemies
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Love
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow men.
Service
Cicero Pro Ligario
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Power
Abraham Lincoln
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But at my back I always hear time's winged chariot hurrying near.
Time and Time Management
Andrew Marvell
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It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
Love
George Mcdonald
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Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
Pleasure
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
Death and Dying
James Montgomery
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Come all good people far and near, Oh, come and see what you can hear.
Cooperation
Julia A. Moore
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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
Dreams
Novalis
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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry and Poets
Plato
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Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.
Fear
Ruth E. Renkel
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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Trust
Helen Rowland
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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.
Association
Sir Walter Scott
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The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
Detail
Edward Simmons
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The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Glory
Socrates
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun