Quotes with dearer

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• Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  Robert Montgomery
  English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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• A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

  Marina Tsvetaeva
   
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• He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  English poet (1809 - 1892)
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• Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver
  American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

  Euripides
  Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• performances
• entertains
• deception
• something
• affection
• sacrifice

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