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Oh, my country, so foolish and dear, Scornful America, crooning a tune. Think, Think: are we immune? Catch him, catch him and stop him soon!
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
You and I will never reach Beta Oph2, dear, and that is a painful truth. But in time you will come to believe that there is nobility in being a part of an enterprise that will outlast you.
~ Anthony Doerr
John Cleese was my personal favorite because he played my husband for a whole season - and Minnie Driver. We almost had our own, like, show all living in a house together. And Gene Wilder was just so dear.
~ Megan Mullally
I love you. Charles Wallace, you are my darling and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my heart.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
~ William Wordsworth
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.
~ Anne Carson
Perhaps the idea of money as a cement to solidify our existence and prevent it from dissolving, together with the people who were dear to us, endured. But
~ Elena Ferrante
I love you, Scarlett, because we are so much alike, renegades, both of us, dear, and selfish rascals. Neither of us cares a rap if the whole world goes to pot, so long as we are safe and comfortable.
~ Margaret Mitchell
It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
~ Alain de Botton
Severed and gone, so many years! And art thou still so dear to me, That throbbing heart and burning tears Can witness how I cling to thee?
~ Anne Bronte
We're so fortunate here, away from the turmoil. We wouldn't have to give a moment's thought to all this suffering if it weren't for the fact that we're so worried about those we hold dear, whom we can no longer help.
~ Anne Frank
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.
~ Annie Dillard
silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel
~ Shakespeare, William
I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.
~ Theobald of Bec
There are moments of the most crazy all-encompassing joy. What a phenonenally beautiful kid. A funny, dear child. Kind and open and loving.
~ Elisa Albert
The French people are very democratical in their tendencies, but they must have a visible type of hero-worship, and they find it in the bearer of that name Napoleon. That name is the only tradition dear to them, and it is deeply dear. That a man bearing it, and appealing at the same time to the whole people upon democratical principles, should be answered from the heart of the people, should neither astonish, nor shame, nor enrage anybody.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He follows that scent-that hated, enticing, bittersweet scent-to its inevitable conclusion. A man, a man who does not serve. A man who threatens something the hound holds dear. A man who will not be permitted to continue.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Find expression for a sorrow and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
~ Author Unknown
Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God. —Ephesians 5:1–2
~ Gary Chapman
for me to help him," said Dorothea, ardently. "You have quite made up your mind, I see. Well, my dear, the fact is, I have a letter for you in my pocket." Mr. Brooke handed the letter to Dorothea, but as she rose to go away, he added, "There is not too much
~ George Eliot
O Soul," I said, "have you no tears? Was not the body dear to you?" I heard my soul say carelessly, "The myrtle flowers will grow more blue.
~ Sara Teasdale
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
~ Alexandre Dumas