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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Then shall i turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands.
in the lost lands — E. E. Cummings
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
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
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
Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich
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
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
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'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
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
It's always easy to judge from afar
— Roberto Mancini
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
'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
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
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