Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours.
My nearest and dearest have always been very careful. I've never had to send Christmas present back yet.
Whatever binds us most, whatever is dearest to us, that is what we should offer the Lord. Doesn't a mother give her child whatever she thinks is the best?
The dearest events are summer-rain.
Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
…dearest, loveliest Elizabeth [. . . ] By you, I was properly humbled.
Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and the fondest lips never tire of whispering their sweet secrets; when the parting look that accompanies "Good night!" gives delightful warning of tomorrow.
The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.
The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.
What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.
Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
If I had a hundred kingdoms, I would trade them all for you, my dearest love. I was nothing until you.
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!
I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.
Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire � And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers Of gardens or fire I have no opinion I seek no exchange for my dearest love
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
