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.
Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.
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.
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.
Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.
The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.
O reputation! dearer far than life.
How much the wife is dearer than the bride.
He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
O dearer far than light and life are dear.
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.
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another.