dearer QUOTES

21 " As if it were Injustice to sell dearer than we buy; or to give more to a man than he merits. The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give. "

― Thomas Hobbes , Leviathan

22 " Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race - of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance - of substituting peace for war - freedom for bondage - religion for superstition - the hope of heaven for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for. "

― Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre

23 " Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, beyond waht can be valued, rich or rare; no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found; a love that makes breath poor, and speech unable; beyond all manner of so much I love you. "

― William Shakespeare

24 " His dear face, dear to her, dearer still. how could she love his face more for its damage? What kind of person saw someone's suffering and felt her heart crack open even wider, even more sweetly than before?
There was something wrong with her. It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful. "

― Marie Rutkoski , The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy, #2)

25 " The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths "

― Anton Chekhov , Gooseberries

26 " Ian, man, I didna tell ye because I didna wish to lose you too. My brother was gone, and my father. I didna mean to lose my own heart's blood as well. For you are dearer to me even than home and family, love.'She cast a lopsided smile at Jamie. 'And that's saying quite a bit. "

― Diana Gabaldon , Outlander (Outlander, #1)

27 " She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others. "

― Edith Wharton , The House of Mirth

28 " I to myself am dearer than a friend. "

29 " To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. "

30 " There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others. "

31 " God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. "

32 " Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. "

― Aristotle

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