Nearer Quotes

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

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.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

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.

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

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.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

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

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.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

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

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

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

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

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

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place.

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.

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.