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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. -- Edmond Halley
Nearer, my God, to Thee. -- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart. -- Goodale Sisters
I'm in the Dance Band on the Titanic Singing "Nearer my God to thee" and the icebergs on the starboard bow Won't you dance with me? -- Harry Chapin
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off. -- Ted Turner
The nearer the dawn the darker the night. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. -- William Wordsworth
Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. -- Billy Graham
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. -- John Dewey
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. -- Jacqueline Bisset
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. -- Henry David Thoreau
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. -- George MacDonald
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. -- Gertrude Stein
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that! -- Eleonora Duse
A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. -- George MacDonald
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. -- Adam Smith
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. -- Elbert Hubbard
The art of the novelist is not unrelated to the illness of multiple personality disorder. It's a much milder form. But the better the book, the nearer to the padded cell you are. -- David Mitchell
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting. -- Jackson Pollock
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. -- Washington Irving
I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. -- Dido Armstrong
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. -- Philip Stanhope
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? -- Khalil Gibran
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other. -- Sigmund Freud
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. -- Margaret Cavendish
The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality. -- Annie Besant
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Science brings men nearer to God. -- Louis Pasteur
Every evening brings us nearer God. -- Martin Luther
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. -- Gwen John
God's help is nearer than the door. -- William Gurney Benham
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. -- Plato
Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. -- Philip Sidney
One is always nearer by not keeping still, -- Thom Gunn
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. -- Jessamyn West
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults -- Jessamyn West
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. -- T. S. Eliot
God is nearer to us than our own spirit -- Julian of Norwich
Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. -- Wassily Kandinsky
The nearer to the church, the further from God. -- John Heywood
The further from one another, the nearer one can be. -- August Strindberg
Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before. -- Vance Havner
Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. -- Vigen Guroian
He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. -- Abraham Kuyper
Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them. -- James Longstreet
The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. -- Abbe Pierre
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. -- D. H. Lawrence
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. -- James Montgomery
Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. -- John Quincy Adams
Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. -- Edward Gorey
Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. -- Swami Vivekananda
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. -- Simone Weil
My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. -- Sebastian Faulks
You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. -- Alexander Pope
My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396 -- Hans Werner Henze
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin. -- David Lloyd-Jones
The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them. -- David Jeremiah
Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. -- Henry David Thoreau
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. -- Henry Moore
We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. -- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. -- Augustus Hare
You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. -- Swami Vivekananda
The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal -- Keith Richards
The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. -- Jean de la Bruyere
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. -- Brother Lawrence
Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. -- Jean Dubuffet
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate. -- Henry David Thoreau
But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer... -- Ruskin Bond
Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. -- David Hare
That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure. -- Amy Layne Litzelman
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. -- Nikolai Gogol
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. -- Herbert Hoover
At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark." -- J. R. R. Tolkien
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. -- Les Brown
I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. -- Francis Bacon
God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid. -- George MacDonald
War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer. -- Cornelia Meigs
I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. -- Dwight L. Moody
Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. -- Vikrmn
Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God. -- T. B. Joshua
We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer. -- J. Reuben Clark
Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. -- Tom Kettle
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. -- Helen Yglesias
In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be -- Keith Duckworth
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. -- Ludwig von Mises
The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. -- Geert Groote
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. -- Ellen Glasgow
As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? -- Lyndon B. Johnson
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. -- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. -- Socrates
A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. -- C. S. Lewis
The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. -- Sylvia Plath
We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. -- John Owen
Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. -- Liam Gillick
When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ. -- Paul V. Johnson
Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. -- Henry Wotton
Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. -- Alexander Smith
For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless. -- Stefan Zweig
Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. -- Eric Liddell
Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. -- Arthur C. Clarke
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. -- George Orwell
In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... -- Walter J. Phillips
I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth -- Karl Popper
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. -- Josh Billings

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