#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 #charm #distance #fades #fairy

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. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#conditions #exist #feel #glow #hear

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#any #country #nearer #problems #running

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #god #nearer #science #us

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

#come #control #exclude #generations #human

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them. ↗

— James Longstreet

#heaviest #impact #lines #nearer #pickett

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. ↗

— George Orwell

#brought #equality #ever #human #manners

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 #frightened #i #kids #nearer

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. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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