Quotes with nearest

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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Booker T. Washington Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord George Byron 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.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Marguerite Duras 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
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Bayard Taylor The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • C. Wright Mills The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Socrates The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Henry David Thoreau What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good friend is my nearest relation.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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