#nearest

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. ↗

— David Hume

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them. ↗

— Maggie Smith

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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

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Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. ↗

— Herb Alpert

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Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

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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. ↗

— George Byron

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A good friend is my nearest relation. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

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