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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