“ After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it — can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it. ”
- Marguerite Duras- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest to all of us. ”
- Meister Eckhart- Copy
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“ When our old Pleasures die,Some new One still is nigh;Oh! fair Variety! ”
- Nicholas Rowe- Copy
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“ A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. ”
- Lord Greville- Copy
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“ Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ An aged Christian, with the snow of time upon his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest which are nearest to heaven. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ It is by loving and by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another. ”
- George McDonald- Copy
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“ The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the everyday things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon. ”
- Booker T. Washington- Copy
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“ The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.5K
“ If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
- 2.1K
“ To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ”
- Mary Roberts Rinehart- Copy
- 1.8K
“ We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship, let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ”
- Charlotte Curtis- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. ”
- Groucho Marx- Copy
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