37 Nearer Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Wisdom Than Oftentimes Stoop Soar Nearer

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision. C. S. Lewis

You World Decision Circle Will Long Few Living Every Enough Meet Finally Draw Those Must Followed Rather Road Roads Make Gradually Fork Where Forks After Again Centre Miles Therefore Each Nearer Two

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

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

Day You Sunset Every Day Will Thought Every See Firmly Know Goal Done Want Hold Much Should Your Nearer

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.

Friendship You Become Relation On The Contrary Say Tact More Disagreeable Come Courtesy Contrary Person Flatter Your Nearer Things Necessary

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

Equality Wealth Revolution Manners Brought Advance Reform Human Ever Nearer

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato

Truth History Vital Poetry Than Nearer

The nearer the dawn the darker the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Darker Dawn Nearer Night

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Desiderius Erasmus

Life Death Time Tired Age People Old Old Age Living Approach Neither Like Until Return Nor Semblance Depart Closer Childhood Children Again Them Aware Nearer

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. bell hooks

People Fear Drop Earth Draw Surround Heavenly Us Creatures Nearer

In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become. Fred Rogers

Life Become Own Earth My Own Simpler End Get Want Nearer

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

Work Walk Painting Sides Way Ease More Part Feel Since Around Am Literally Floor Nearer Four

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.

God Religion Man Book Precepts Other Keystone Our Earth Correct Would Abide Mormon Most Than Get Any Brethren Nearer

Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace. Abbe Pierre

Me Grace State Brought Always Illness Nearer

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. Augustus Hare

Nature Nothing Earth Than Heaven Farther Nearer

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office. Barry Humphries

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. Christopher Gist

Family Winter Man People Old Wife Met Gone Indians About Had Came Five Frightened Place Which Informed Old Man Inhabitants Miles Found Away Near Among Nearer

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