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I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII

Heart, Eyes, Put

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
George Washington

Time, Men, Free

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill

Great, Enemy, Against

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.
Swami Vivekananda

Time, Truth, Live

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.
Margaret Thatcher

Work, Hard, Pretty

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde

Sister, Expression, Annoying

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Confucius

Truth, Art, Anger

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?
Khalil Gibran

Soul, Between, Dream

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
Confucius

Simple, Virtue, Modest

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, May

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya

Fear, Soon, Destroy

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Sun Tzu

Enemy, Him, Far

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope

Love, Money, Washington

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge.
Napoleon Hill

Another, Speak, Write

Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry

Heart, Him, Loved

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

Work, Two, Matter

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Steven Wright

Work, Fire, Place

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

Great, May, Cannot

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Aeschylus

Happiness, Heart, Another

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'
Jeff Foxworthy

Family, Feeling, Start

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
George Orwell

Family, Control, Wrong

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Live, Him, Leave

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo

Easy, Whatever, Genius

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
Matthew Henry

God, Themselves, Church

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley

Night, Country, Away

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.
Donald Trump

Story, Anyone, Thinks

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Find, Guilt, Innocence

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Trust, Truth, Wise

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

Greatest, Past, Nothing

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.
Simone Weil

Two, Friends, Far

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