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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.
Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon 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.
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.
I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.
The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.
If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
In my own life, as the nearer I get to the end of life on this earth, the simpler I want to become.
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.
One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
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.
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Genuinely my big thing and the reason I'm in 'The Miser' is because I always ask myself one simple question when I'm offered anything: Will it get me nearer to being 'Doctor Who' or further away?
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.
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.
