Earth is dearer than gold.
Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Doesn't there, in fact, exist something that is dearer to almost every man than his own very best interests, or - not to violate logic - some best good ... which is more important and higher than any other good, and for the sake of which man is prepa...
The Union - It is dear to us, but liberty is dearer.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!
He was telling her here, in this cellar, as he kissed her feet, he had understood love for the first time - not just from other people's words, but in his heart, in his blood. She was dearer to him than all his past, dearer to him than his mother, th...
God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.
What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.
The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Life’s mystery continued to trouble me A question came to my mind, is freedom dearer than life? or does it become easier to live when life becomes difficult?
Oh, come to me in dreams, my love! I will not ask a dearer bliss; Come with the starry beams, my love, And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.
Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived— what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him.
There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and ...
