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I would rather die than betray his trust."That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed."Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones. J. K. Rowling
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as..."
We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.. Edgar Allan Poe
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire. Thomas Hardy
You've got so much up ahead. You'll make new friends. You should see your kids and wife. And I'd end up saying have no fear. These are nowhere near the best years of your life Brad Paisley
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact? T. S. Eliot
Seek for the Sword that was broken. In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken. Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token. That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand. J. R. R. Tolkien
It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile. L. M. Montgomery
Oswald Chambers quote: "Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus..."
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants. Oswald Chambers
An idea has just come to me from nowhere, to wit: Might not the ancient and nearly universal belief that sperm could be metabolized into noble actions have been the inspiration for Einsten's very similar formula: 'E equals MC squared'? Kurt Vonnegut
[On neighbors looking over his camper:] I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation--a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any here... nearly every American hungers to move. John Steinbeck
He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye. Flannery O'Connor
...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges. Thomas Wolfe
During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody. Alan Alda
When we no longer look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension; when we regard every production of nature as one which has had a history; when we contemplate every complex structure and instinct as the summing up of many contrivances, each useful to the possessor, nearly in the same way as when we look at any great mechanical invention as the summing up of the labour, the experience, the reason, and even the blunders of numerous... Charles Darwin
Edith Hamilton quote: "The mind knows only what lies near the heart."
The mind knows only what lies near the heart. Edith Hamilton

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