#near

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

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The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

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You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer. ↗

— Black Elk

#anything #came #dance #during #eighteenth

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#community #nearly #percent #pretty #religious

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#am #die #i #i am #may

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day. ↗

— Neil Innes

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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. ↗

— John Harvey Kellogg

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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. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

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Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

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