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We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off. — Pliny The Elder

A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses... — Jean M. Grant

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect. — Baltasar Gracian

there's this thing about rainbows. they're perfect from afar. but when you get real close to them, they just disappear. — Lisa Verge Higgins

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. — Lewis H. Lapham

How shall polluted mortals dare
To sing Thy glory or Thy grace
Beneath Thy feet we lie afar
And see but shadows of Thy face. — Isaac Watts

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The good shine from afar Like the snowy Himalayas. The bad don't appear Even when near, Like arrows shot into the night. — Gautama Buddha

Unremembered and afar
I watched as I watched a star,
Through darkness struggling into view
And I loved you better than you knew. — Elizabeth Chase Allen

If you just can't get rid of envy, then start creating a life, so that if you saw yourself from afar, you'd be envious of you. — Charles F. Glassman

I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. — Edward Rowland Sill

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar? — James Beattie

I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close. — Gena Showalter

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites. — Bayard Taylor

I am borne darkly, fearfully, afar; — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation. — Yuri Gagarin

A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow. — Bryan Procter

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult. — Mencius

George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work. — Bill Cosby

People in Latin America ... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them. — David Byrne

Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak. — Rupert Brooke

Why can't I love him (a 2 yr old nephew) from afar? That's how I want to love him - through pictures and folklore. — Ray Romano

I should talk to him
I know I should talk to him.
But I do not talk to him.
I watch after him from afar
and love him. — David Levithan

Nothing but sunrise and sunsetting
Men fighting the things that are-
Birthgiving and bloodletting
And a drunk god snoring afar. — Dan Levin

The earth from afar shines like a star — Vincent Van Gogh

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off. — Christian Nestell Bovee

Sometimes we must search afar to find what's close at hand. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar. — Robert Browning

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are. — Sam Walter Foss

This is a lot better than loving from afar, I told him. — Richelle Mead

There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand. — Susan Meiselas

She came out of her reverie with a deep sigh and looked at him with a dreamy gaze of a soul that had been wandering afar, star-led. — L.M. Montgomery

Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I'd been forced to love her from afar. — Kiera Cass

The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. — Randy Moss

Work is its own best earthly meed,
Else have we none more than the sea-born throng
Who wrought those marvellous isles that bloom afar. — Jean Ingelow

Hither I come, From my airy home, Afar in the silver moon. Take the magic spell, And use it well, Or its power will vanish soon! And — Louisa May Alcott

When heard someone's boasting,
I could smell shit of bull from afar. — Toba Beta

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there. — Tom Stoppard

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. — Bill Vaughan

Legends are always better from afar. — A. Lee Martinez

But he knew she was a star, and he, only human. He was never meant to reach the stars - he could only admire them from afar. — Timothy Joshua

I realize the thing about a guy you've spent your whole life loving from afar is that even though he's real you've really made most of him up. — Kirsten Smith

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things. — Mencius

Accept all happiness from me.
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands — E. E. Cummings

On him who wields power gently, the god looks favorably from afar. — Aeschylus

I love him. I tried to love him from afar. I tried to be his friend. I tried to make him mine. But now, I'm trying to let go. — MsButterfly

The eyes of such a nation (living godly) shall view a land that stretches afar. Talking about global influence, authority, dignity and respect. — Sunday Adelaja

What good were bright gods who only watched from afar while dark gods strove every moment to devour you? — Laini Taylor

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off. — William Davenant

You know, Britney is one of those women who looks good from afar, but up close she looks far from good. — Liz Dodwell

A caged canary is secure; but it is not free. It is easier for free men to resist terrorism from afar than tyranny from within. — Chuck Baldwin

Man seeks answers from afar
Man has reached the moon reaching mars and distant planets
but has not even gone into the silence of his being — Rajneesh

The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm. — Boris Pasternak

She is admired from afar. These admirers court her in secret, in the safety of their dreams. — Whitney Otto

Light
jumping out of window
is staring the dark
from afar. — Suman Pokhrel

When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10, you wish you hadn't. — Josh Hartnett

Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. — Confucius

The forehead of every work must shine from afar. — Pindar

The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar. — A. Zavarelli

Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Gemellus, who had loved and worshiped her from afar, she who was in his arms now ... — Melissa De La Cruz

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? — Isaiah

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors — Michael Bassey Johnson

Some of the most beautiful things are those we can only enjoy from afar. The unattainability makes the attraction more intense. — Penelope Ward

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. — John Webster

The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar. — Mencius

The world's full of wonder, he said. Or at least horror that looks wondrous from afar. — Luke Scull

Do you want to know the world? Then look at it closely. Do you want to like it? Then look at it from afar. — Ion Luca Caragiale

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star. — Walter Scott

There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. — Confucius

Faith is not something to be reasoned from afar, but something we throw ourselves into - heart, mind, and soul. — Linda Dillow

You're a great man, but only when seen from afar. — Brent Weeks

Choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is. — Angelo Tsanatelis

[H]istory viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians. — Dan Simmons

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. — Julian Barnes

I think it's a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar. — Paul Auster

I'm Canadian. I think that's it. When you're a Canadian, you're always watching America from the outside, from afar. — Ryan Gosling

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever. — Cynthia Leitich Smith

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen it. Nor — H.P. Lovecraft

The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar - Who follows in his train? I — Rudyard Kipling

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith. — Gerald Massey

When we were strangers, I liked you from afar
when we were lovers, I loved you with all my heart — Neil Young

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility. — Jakob Bohme

To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book. — H.L. Stephens

He just wanted to see it. From afar. To see what might have been, what he was glad hadn't been. But maybe should have been. — Julia Quinn

If they make the choice to walk over me rather than walk with me, I'll have to love them from afar. — Lysa TerKeurst

of fear beats inside her. Who is this woman, watching from afar, who comments — Jessie Burton

It's always easy to judge from afar — Roberto Mancini

Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.
[Better good afar than evil at hand.] — George Herbert

I see you from afar - fragile and shy as a star gleaming through a cloudy rift — John Geddes

I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way. — Joe Abercrombie

Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar — J.R.R. Tolkien

God does not look at our suffering from afar. It is an intimate event to him. He is the author of every detail, speaking the suffering as it occurs. — Ben Palpant

THE WISDOM OF THE SPHERES
How instructive
is a star!
It can teach us
from afar
just how small
each other are. — Piet Hein

No one is a prophet in his own land. We always tend to value what comes from afar, never recognizing the beauty around us. — Paulo Coelho

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Can I like you from afar? — Bianca B. Bernardino