In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs, with fox fur and not fox innards? In the name of what I don't know. Don't dirt, trash and filth, which are man's companions during his whole lifetime, deserve to be dearer to him and isn't it serving him well to remind him of their beauty?
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
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.
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.
Man, through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by heaven o'er all the world beside; Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Religion should be dearer than life itself.
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
Much dearer be the things which come through hard distress.
