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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.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Courtesy,
Friendship,
Relationships,
Tact
| Keywords:
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«Believers, look up -- take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.»
«Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
approach, difficulties, goal, increase, nearer, near in, The Goal
«Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
despondency, laziness, nearer, persevere, persevering, unattainable
«God is the mysterium tremendum that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.»
Author: Martin Buber
(Interpreter, Philosopher, Translator)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
evident, nearer, overthrows
«Good-bye -- good bye, all. It is God's way. His will, not ours, be done. Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee.»
«Be yourself and think for yourself; and while your conclusions may not be infallible, they will be nearer right than the conclusions forced upon you.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
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«A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
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«As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?»
«Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.»
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