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"Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey?s end, we should lay in the more provision for it?" »Cicero
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"Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal." »Johann von Goethe
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"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar." »William Wordsworth
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"Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." »Plato
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"Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves." »La Rochefoucauld
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"...love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other." »Han Suyin
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"The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think." »John Burroughs
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"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
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