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The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Heart
Slippery
Than
Fanatic
Cool
Downright
Nearer
Things
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.
Elihu Root
Nature
Injustice
Will
Ambition
Control
Human Nature
Must
Perfection
Generations
Exclude
Come
Selfishness
Than
Human
Much
Prejudice
Many
Now
Nearer
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.
Eliza Haywood
Great
Nature
Quality
Draw
More
Somewhat
Author
Heavenly
Which
Much
Nearer
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein
You
Better
Walk
Looking
Down
Hill
Up
Walking
While
Ground
Nearer
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.
Gilbert Parker
Friendship
Great
Men
Before
Other
Else
Must
Find
Remembered
Days
Known
Were
Years
Than
Them
Sea
Who
Each
Twenty
Ever
Nearer
Bring
Two
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
Helena Bonham Carter
Death
Problem
Older
Think
Kids
Frightened
Being
Us
Who
Nearer
Start
This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it.
Jasper Johns
Time
Me
Strong
Long
Long Time
Become
Nothing
Way
Would
Would-Be
Some
Seemed
Knew
Know
How
Condition
Very
Did
Any
Artist
Being
Wanting
Ever
Nearer
Image
Bring
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Phoebe Cary
Today
Home
Me
Thought
Before
Solemn
Am
Been
Than
Sweetly
Ever
Nearer
Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an incapacity to express what I wanted to express - dynamic movement in equilibrium. But a continuous struggle for this statement brought me nearer. This is what I am attempting in 'Victory Boogie Woogie.'
Piet Mondrian
Work
Me
Struggle
Victory
Boogie
Statement
Brought
Attempting
Equilibrium
Am
Continuous
Did
Just
Movement
Want
Wanted
Dynamic
Which
Former
Produced
Incapacity
Many
Express
Nearer
Appreciate
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
Happy
Other
Pleasure
Some
Give
Attainable
Towards
Come
Principle
Becoming
Goal
Up
Efforts
May
Cannot
Which
Realization
Us
Means
Nay
Nearer
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
Become
Other
Approach
Distance
Thorns
Visible
Those
Charm
Fades
Like
Fairy
Literature
Land
Landscapes
View
Who
Nearer
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