Farther Quotes
416 Farther quotes by 365 unique authors
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People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left…
— Unknown Author
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The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not…
— Gifford Pinchot
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We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.
— John Ortberg
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Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is short and tedious, and is wholly spent in wishing; we trust to find rest and enjoyment at some future time, often at an…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We talk about spreading democracy and freedom all over the world, but they are to us words rather than conditions. We haven't even got them…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold,…
— Victoria Finlay
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Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand,…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is…
— Catherine the Great
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Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away,…
— Brian Greene
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these…
— Lady Gregory
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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little…
— Cyril Connolly
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On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and…
— Robert Delaunay
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than…
— E. M. Forster
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The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
— Augustus Hare
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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
— Thomas Hood
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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of…
— Ellsworth Huntington
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I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom…
— Bo Jackson
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I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much…
— Veronica Lake
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