Nearly Quotations
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas Jefferson
Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.
Voltaire
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.
Thomas A. Edison
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
George Eliot
It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
James A. Baldwin
Nearly Translations
nearly in Afrikaans is amper, byna
nearly in Dutch is schier, bijkans, haast, bijna
nearly in Finnish is melkein
nearly in French is quasiment
nearly in German is beinahe, fast, beinahe, nahezu
nearly in Italian is quasi
nearly in Latin is prope, paene; pene
nearly in Norwegian is nesten
nearly in Portuguese is quase
nearly in Spanish is casi
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