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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.


Plato
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.


John Burroughs
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.


Herbert Hoover
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.


George MacDonald
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There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke
Nothing is nearer to us than heaven. The earth is beneath our feet, and we tread upon it, but heaven is within us.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.
Phoebe Cary
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.


Lew Wallace
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Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.


Liu Yang
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To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine Hepburn
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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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We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.


Alicia Keys
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.


Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.


Nick Kroll
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.


Xenophanes
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.


Ludwig van Beethoven
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A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.


Simone Weil
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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.


Doug Larson
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg
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