"It may be observed in general that the……" — Samuel Johnson

More Distant Quotes

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• 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… — Michelle Bachelet
• Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the… — Ezra Taft Benson
• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving… — Hugo Black
• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills… — Hal Borland
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors… — 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… — Chanakya
• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of… — 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

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