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Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame. -- John Oldham
I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty -- William Shakespeare
None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear. -- Lord Byron
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning Dearer than any of these by far Is to lie in bed in the morning -- Jean Kerr
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. -- Aristotle
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. -- Euripides
The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer. -- Duff Green
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. -- Nikolai Gogol
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. -- Swami Vivekananda
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence. -- Edward Everett
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life. -- John Biddle
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. -- Henryk Sienkiewicz
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people. -- Paul Di Filippo
O reputation! dearer far than life. -- James Russell Lowell
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy. -- Jessie Sampter
Religion should be dearer than life itself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort. -- Woodrow Wilson
How much the wife is dearer than the bride. -- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
My honor is dearer to me than my life. -- Miguel de Cervantes
O dearer far than light and life are dear. -- William Wordsworth
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress. -- Herbert Spencer
The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore. -- Lucy Larcom
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son. -- Chris Gardner
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. -- Anton Chekhov
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice. -- Isaac of Nineveh
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. -- Robert Montgomery
The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became. -- Azar Nafisi
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. -- George Herbert
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor. -- Henry Ward Beecher
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself. -- Ben Jonson
Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier? -- Laozi
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. -- Hosea Ballou
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . . -- Maxim Gorky
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother. -- Maxim Gorky
The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor. -- Claudio Monteverdi
Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waterswide. -- William Allingham
That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer. -- Bernard Barton
The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly." -- Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. -- Barbara Kingsolver
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
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself? -- Charlotte Bronte
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self? -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
To a father waxing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter; sons have spirits of a higher pitch, but less inclined to endearing fondness. -- Euripides
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body. -- Khalil Gibran
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter. -- James Anthony Froude
Your scars only make you dearer to me, reminding me of what a hero you are. My eyes behold the most handsome man in the world. -- Melanie Dickerson
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority. -- Thomas Jefferson
He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him. -- John Locke
Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection admits a sacrifice. -- Luc de Clapiers
Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is. -- Maimonides
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. -- William Hazlitt
If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education. -- Thomas Jefferson
The cause of Hawaii and independence is larger and dearer than the life of any man connected with it. Love of country is deep-seated in the breast of every Hawaiian, whatever his station. -- LiliÊ»uokalani
Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself. -- Thanissaro Bhikkhu
It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim. -- William Shakespeare
Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God! -- Rumi
The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship. -- Heloise
A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our sleep, and two-thirds of our love - we must be stingy with it. -- Charles Baudelaire
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life. -- Thomas Carlyle
...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures." -- Mary Shelley
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the livedâ?? what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death? -- Louise GluÌ?ck

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