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Distant Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.
- I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In…
- They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do…
- That work is ever more pleasant to the imagination which is not now required. How wistfully, when we have promised to attend the working committee,…
- There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great…
More Distant Quotes
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving… — Michelle Bachelet
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more… — Hal Borland
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere
- The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
- As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is… — Chanakya
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran