“Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”
David Hare
“The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them”
Walt Whitman
“It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.”
William Shakespeare
“Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The greater the fear the nearer the danger”
Danish Proverb
“Good-bye -- good bye, all. It is God's way. His will, not ours, be done. Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee.”
William McKinley
“Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
