
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of dearest, love, use, life.
“The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul – BOOKS.”
“Do not grieve, my friend, my dearest friend. I am ready to go. And John, it will not be long.”
Last words in a letter to John Adams, as quoted in Famous Last Words (1961) by Barnaby Conrad
Letter to Leopold Mozart (Paris, 29 April 1778), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
In a letter to her aunt Mary Hill, from Worpswede, June 1899; as quoted in Paula Modersohn-Becker – The Letters and Journals, ed: Günther Busch & Lotten von Reinken; (transl, A. Wensinger & C. Hoey; Taplinger); Publishing Company, New York, 1983, p. 135
1899
Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), p. 375
General Order (9 July 1776) George Washington Papers http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html at the Library of Congress, 1741-1799: Series 3g Varick Transcripts
1770s
Quoted in "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - Page 873 - by Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993.
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1846/may/15/corn-importation-bill-adjourned-debate in the House of Commons (15 May 1846).
1840s
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 184.
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol.78, p. 136.
Religious wisdom
Source: Letter to Fr. Vincenzo Renieri (c. 1633), p. 251-253
Letter to Leonard Woolf (28 March 1941), from The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, p. 369, ISBN 0156935902
Introduction http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro.html to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein
Source: Until You
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Source: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Letter to J. Edward Austen (1817-05-27) [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record]
Letters
When Thou at Eve art Roaming, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty but to have a slave of his own.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night (1885) When it was the Three Hundred and Sixtieth Night, footnote
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 371.
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)
Quoted in "The American Review of Reviews" - Page 184 - by Albert Shaw – 1915.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.
“My nearest
And dearest enemy.”
Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act v. Sc. 1. Compare: "Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, Or ever I had seen that day", Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2.
Quote of Berthe's last letter to daughter Julie, End of Feb. 1895; as cited in Berthe Morisot, Jean-Dominique Rey; translation in English, Flammarion, S.A. (ISBN: 978-2-08-020345-8), Paris, 2016, p. 217
1881 - 1895
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 39.
Address to the House of Commons on the sinking of the RMS Titanic; see [Asquith Voices Sympathy, http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A02E3DF153CE633A25754C1A9629C946396D6CF, 16 April 1912, The New York Times]
God can turn my failures into triumphs: this is the mystery of the Cross.
The Breaking Process http://www.getcited.org/pub/103428837, London: SCM Press Ltd., 1981, p. 99. ISBN 0334001390
As quoted in The American Soul: An Appreciation of the Four Greatest Americans and their Lessons for Present Americans (1920) by Charles Sherwood Farriss, p. 63
“Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.”
"Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 53.
Je me fais vieux, j’ai soixante ans,
J’ai travaillé toute ma vie,
Sans avoir, durant tout ce temps.
Pu satisfaire mon envie.
Je vois bien qu’il n’est ici-bas
De bonheur complet pour personne.
Mon vœu ne s’accomplira pas:
Je n’ai jamais vu Carcassonne!
Stanza 1.
Carcassonne, (c. 1887; with translation by John Reuben Thompson)
The Mahābhāṣya
1860s, The Prayer of the Twenty Millions (1862)
"Everybody Loves You (When You're Dead)", Ask Questions Later (March 30, 1993).
Lyrics, Cop Shoot Cop
Das wahrhaft Schöne, Große und Erhabene, so wie es uns in Erstaunen und Verwunderung setzt, überrascht uns doch nicht als etwas Fremdes, Unerhörtes und Niegesehenes, sondern unser eigenstes Wesen wird uns in solchen Augenblicken klar, unsre tiefsten Erinnerungen werden erweckt, und unsre nächsten Empfindungen lebendig gemacht.
"Der Pokal", from Phantasus (1812-16) http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/gutenberg-de/1996/gutenb/tieck/pokal/pokal2.htm; translation from Thomas Carlyle German Romance: Specimens of its Chief Authors, (London: Tait, 1827), vol. 2, p. 163.
“It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.”
Chap 11.
Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV
Vol. I: Arithmetical Algebra To the Rev. James Tate, M.A. Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's p. i
A Treatise on Algebra (1842)
On resistance to the Reform Act 1832. Quarterly Review, 123, 1867, p. 557
1860s
“O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?”
“Characters,” p. 310
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Source: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory (2002), p. 1342
"Dear Reader," New York Review of Books, May 21, 2015 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/05/21/dear-reader
A Place in thy Memory, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 283
“NAY, weep not, dearest, though the child be dead;
He lives again in Heaven's unclouded life”
"Bereavement".
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Harmony of Determinism and Freedom, p.342-3
F*** You! Mr. President: Confessions of the Father of the Neutron Bomb (2006)
Speech in the House of Commons (27 February 1846), quoted in John Bright and J. E. Thorold Rogers (eds.), Speeches on Questions of Public Policy by Richard Cobden, M.P. Volume I (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), p. 198.
1840s
“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things.”
"God's Grandeur," line 10
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)
1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
No.14. The Bride of Lammermuir — LUCY ASHTON.
Literary Remains
Lamb in September 27, 1796. In his letter to Coleridge; after the family tragedy. As quoted in Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (1905).
Speech in the House of Commons (12 December 1792), quoted in The Parliamentary History of England, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. Vol. XXX (London: 1817), pp. 41-42.
1790s
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 600.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 61.
Garrett Blake, Chapter 1, p. 20
1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)
Founding Address (1876)
Context: Freely do I own to this purpose of reconciliation, and candidly do I confess that it is my dearest object to exalt the present movement above the strife of contending sects and parties, and at once to occupy that common ground where we may all meet, believers and unbelievers, for purposes in themselves lofty and unquestioned by any. Surely it is time that a beginning were made in this direction. For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name. There have been no direr wars than religious wars, no bitterer hates than religious hates, no fiendish cruelty like religious cruelty; no baser baseness than religious baseness. It has destroyed the peace of families, turned the father against the son, the brother against the brother.
Last letter to her mother, (14 May 1850).
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852)
Context: I long so much to see you! Should anything hinder our meeting upon earth, think of your daughter, as one who always wished, at least, to do her duty, and who always cherished you, according as her mind opened to discover excellence. … I hope we shall be able to pass some time together yet, in this world. But, if God decrees otherwise, — here and HEREAFTER, — my dearest mother, "Your loving child, MARGARET."
Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; Guard well and reverence that form of government Which will eschew alike licence and slavery; And from your polity do not wholly banish fear. For what man living, freed from fear, will still be just? Hold fast such upright fear of the law’s sanctity,
Source: Phillip Vellacott, The Oresteian Trilogy, Penguin 1973 ( Google Books https://books.google.com.au/books?id=tuRiOESBVjkC) source: Oresteia (458 BC), Eumenides, lines 526–530 (tr. E. D. A. Morshead)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Aeschylus / Quotes / Oresteia (458 BC) / Eumenides
Life Circulars (20 July 1957), p. 77.
General sources
Context: Being the Avatar, I have come to awaken mankind, and would like the entire world to come to me. Real saints are dearest and nearest to my heart. Perfect Ones and lovers of God adorn the world, and will ever do so. The physical presence of the Perfect Masters throughout eternity is not necessarily confined to any particular or special part of the globe. My salutations to all — the past, present and future Perfect Masters, real saints — known and unknown — lovers of God, and to all other beings, in all of whom I reside, whether consciously felt by them or not.
Hindutva