Quotes about Nearer

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach. Votes: 4

Nearer, my God, to Thee. Votes: 3

Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The nearer the dawn the darker the night. Votes: 2

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. Votes: 2

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think. Votes: 2

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. Votes: 2

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions. Votes: 2

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another. Votes: 2

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. Votes: 2

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer. Votes: 2

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that! Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Science brings men nearer to God. Votes: 0

Every evening brings us nearer God. Votes: 0

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality. Votes: 0

God's help is nearer than the door. Votes: 0

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Votes: 0

Courage without discipline is nearer beastliness than manhood. Votes: 0

One is always nearer by not keeping still, Votes: 0

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. Votes: 0

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal. Votes: 0

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults Votes: 0

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance. Votes: 0

God is nearer to us than our own spirit Votes: 0

Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow. Votes: 0

The nearer to the church, the further from God. Votes: 0

The further from one another, the nearer one can be. Votes: 0

Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before. Votes: 0

Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is. Votes: 0

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology. Votes: 0

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God. Votes: 0

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them. Votes: 0

The more we love, the nearer we are to hate. Votes: 0

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. Votes: 0

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven. Votes: 0

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. Votes: 0

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. Votes: 0

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. Votes: 0

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest. Votes: 0

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. Votes: 0

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. Votes: 0

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote. Votes: 0

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house. Votes: 0

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest. Votes: 0

My profession?consists of bringing truths nearer to the point where they explode. 396 Votes: 0

The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin. Votes: 0

The vinedresser is never nearer the branches then when he is pruning them. Votes: 0

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. Votes: 0

Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. Votes: 0

We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones. Votes: 0

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. Votes: 0

You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita. Votes: 0

The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God. Votes: 0

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal Votes: 0

The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men. Votes: 0

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think. Votes: 0

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself. Votes: 0

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate. Votes: 0

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer... Votes: 0

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole. Votes: 0

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. Votes: 0

That One Who is greater than us is near - nearer than we could measure. Votes: 0

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. Votes: 0

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land. Votes: 0

At ninety-nine they began to call him well-preserved; but unchanged would have been nearer the mark." Votes: 0

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Votes: 0

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being. Votes: 0

God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours... Do not be afraid. Votes: 0

War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer. Votes: 0

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is. Votes: 0

Challenges are like vehicles in the rear-view mirror. They appear larger and nearer than they are. Votes: 0

Genuine faith can find encouragement, even in that which is discouraging and get nearer to God. Votes: 0

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer. Votes: 0

Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain. Votes: 0

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant. Votes: 0

Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. Votes: 0

In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be Votes: 0

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Votes: 0

Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship. Votes: 0

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it. Votes: 0

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. Votes: 0

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor? Votes: 0

We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish. Votes: 0

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. Votes: 0

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity. Votes: 0

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute. Votes: 0

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves. Votes: 0

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. Votes: 0

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. Votes: 0

Lying on top of a building, the clouds looked no nearer than when I was lying on the street. Votes: 0

When you are faced with an important decision, be sure that your choice will lead you nearer to Christ. Votes: 0

Take heed of thinking. The farther you go from the church of Rome, the nearer you are to God. Votes: 0

Each time we love,We turn a nearer and a broader markTo that keen archer, Sorrow, and he strikes. Votes: 0

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless. Votes: 0

Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of. Votes: 0

Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. Votes: 0

We are all missionaries. Wherever we go we either bring people nearer to Christ or we repel them from Christ. Votes: 0

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains; they made him feel nearer to the God whose nonexistence he still sometimes resented. Votes: 0

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. Votes: 0

In large studio paintings... composition, or arrangement, may be better studied, and nearer perfection, washes may be more suavely graded... Votes: 0

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth Votes: 0

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue. Votes: 0

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture. Votes: 0

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand. Votes: 0

That which takes us nearer to the Almighty (Sat) is truth. Truth needs no external support to sustain or promote itself. Votes: 0

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. Votes: 0

When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder. Votes: 0

Science proceeds by successive answers to questions more and more subtle, coming nearer and nearer to the very essence of phenomena. Votes: 0

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other. Votes: 0

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. Votes: 0

The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become. Votes: 0

It is easy to understand that the nearer we live to the source of wealth, the more wealth we shall receive. Votes: 0

It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad. Votes: 0

Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves. Votes: 0

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon Votes: 0

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before. Votes: 0

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue. Votes: 0

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Votes: 0

That thorny path, those stormy skies, have drawn our spirits nearer; and rendered us, by sorrow's ties, each to the other dearer. Votes: 0

If I had my will, I would live in a ship on the sea and never come nearer to humanity than that! Votes: 0

Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide. Votes: 0

A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. Votes: 0

This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body. Votes: 0

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance. Votes: 0

I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon. Votes: 0

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God. Votes: 0

I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes. Votes: 0

The tension between us kicked up a notch, and I realized that along with our bodies being nearer, so were our lips. Votes: 0

I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. Votes: 0

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind. Votes: 0

This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance! Votes: 0

There are many degrees of Probable, some nearer Truth than others, in the determining of which lies the chief exercise of our Judgment. Votes: 0

The nearer a person approaches the Lord, a greater power will be manifested by the adversary to prevent the accomplishment of His purposes. Votes: 0

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you. Votes: 0

Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him. Votes: 0

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the vaguer it becomes. Votes: 0

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. Votes: 0

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. Votes: 0

Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. Votes: 0

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch. Votes: 0

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being. Votes: 0

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets. Votes: 0

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near. Votes: 0

Help others in their race of life. Remember that when you help another up a mountain, you are a little nearer the top yourself. Votes: 0

The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die. Votes: 0

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. Votes: 0

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell. Votes: 0

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts Votes: 0

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I. Votes: 0

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

God is nearer to me than I am to myself; He is just as near to wood and stone, but they do not know it. Votes: 0

The one thing that fills me with enthusiasm is to try, despite everything, to get nearer to those visions that seem so hard to express. Votes: 0

As the grace grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Savior of the lost. Votes: 0

Earth may embitter, not remove, The love divinely given; And e'en that mortal grief shall prove The immortality of love, And lead us nearer heaven. Votes: 0

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another. Votes: 0

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin. Votes: 0

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk. Votes: 0

There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world. Votes: 0

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God, the Sun not only of righteousness but of love. Votes: 0

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can guess a good deal nearer than a man. Votes: 0

Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is. Votes: 0

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength. Votes: 0

Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government. Votes: 0

The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God. Votes: 0

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win. Votes: 0

The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple. Votes: 0

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance. Votes: 0

Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell. Votes: 0

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God. Votes: 0

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. Votes: 0

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Votes: 0

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh. Votes: 0

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 ... Votes: 0

Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it. Votes: 0

We must make haste then, not only because we are daily nearer to death, but also because the conception of things and the understanding of them cease first. Votes: 0

The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary. Votes: 0

Before any great things are accomplished, a memorable change must be made in the system of education...to raise the lower ranks of society nearer to the higher. Votes: 0

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself. Votes: 0

The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal. Votes: 0

I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Votes: 0

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent. Votes: 0

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them. Votes: 0

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose. Votes: 0

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. Votes: 0

Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation. Votes: 0

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. Votes: 0

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view. Votes: 0

It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits. Votes: 0

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. Votes: 0

I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you. Votes: 0

In the death of my son, now more than two years ago, I seem to have lost a beautiful estate,--no more. I cannot get it nearer to me. Votes: 0

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now. Votes: 0

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. Votes: 0

The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it. Votes: 0

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 the goal. Votes: 0

The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness. Votes: 0

It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it. Votes: 0

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food. Votes: 0

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities. Votes: 0

People seen by the mind are exactly different to things seen by the eye. They grow smaller and smaller as you come nearer down to them, whereas things become bigger. Votes: 0

With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him. Votes: 0

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate. Votes: 0

It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence. Votes: 0

One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are. Votes: 0

At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest. Votes: 0

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire. Votes: 0

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper. Votes: 0

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love. Votes: 0

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them. Votes: 0

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. Votes: 0

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage. Votes: 0

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need. Votes: 0

The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them. Votes: 0

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him. Votes: 0

Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire? Votes: 0

This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art. Votes: 0

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals. Votes: 0

The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes. Votes: 0

Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky. Votes: 0

The Last Of England works with image and sound, a language which is nearer to poetry than prose. It tells its story quite happily in silent images, in contrast to a word-bound cinema.... Votes: 0

The disquieting thing about newscaster-babble or editorial-speak is its ready availability as a serf idiom, a vernacular of deference. "Mr. Secretary, are we any nearer to bringing about a dialogue in this process ? Votes: 0

And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway. Votes: 0

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart. Votes: 0

I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath. Votes: 0

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect. Votes: 0

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest. Votes: 0

We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers? Votes: 0

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars"”on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places. Votes: 0

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other. Votes: 0

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds. Votes: 0

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life. Votes: 0

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves. Votes: 0

Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.' Votes: 0

I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.' Votes: 0

However useful may be the National Parks and Forests of the West for those affording the Pullman fare to reach them, what is needed by the bulk of the American population is something nearer home. Votes: 0

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. Votes: 0

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening. Votes: 0

no man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face ... Votes: 0

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death. Votes: 0