Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
George Booth and I are both funny, and from afar, without meeting, admired each other's work. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak. — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Our deeds travel with us from afar, And what we have been makes us what we are” — George Elliot Copy Share Image
Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
It’s one of the things I love about the sea, the way you can see weather afar. It’s like looking at the… — Carol Birch Copy Share Image
History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
When I was 16 the first girl I had a crush on wasn't interested at all. I liked her from afar for… — Luke Pasqualino Copy Share Image
A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
I should talk to him I know I should talk to him. But I do not talk to him. I watch after… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it… — Sam Walter Foss Copy Share Image
While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. Down went the man in black. "You can… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
hither,hither, from thy home,airy sprite, i bid thee come! born of roses, fed on dew, charms and potions canst thow brew? bring… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leaves glowing in the sun, zealous hum of bumblebees, From afar, from somewhere beyond the river, echoes of lingering voices And the… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Space is still filled with the noise of destruction and annihilation, the shouts of self-assurance and arrogance, the weeping of despair and… — Alfred Delp Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image