Afar Quote by William Davenant Download Open image “Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.” — William Davenant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Afar Fame Rivers
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
“Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid.” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The brawny mix of extraordinary sights-weather, politics, races, imagination, corruption and athletics. They clash and mingle here where the broad prairies that are the… — Andrew H Malcolm Copy Share Image
Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
“Look closer. The river's its own world of fast and slow, deep and shallow, bright and shadowed. If you look at it like that,… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all,… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Praise and Prayer PRAISE is devotion fit for mighty minds, The diff'ring world's agreeing sacrifice; Where Heaven divided faiths united finds: But Prayer in… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men, A swelling pearl, and such whose single… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed. — William Davenant Copy Share Image
The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink… — Reginald Heber Copy Share Image
Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from… — Lon Milo DuQuette Copy Share Image
Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
I wasn't a 'Battlestar' fan, but I had a lot of respect for the show. I had a lot of friends who worked on… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is,… — Susan Meiselas Copy Share Image
There is good government when those who are near are made happy, and when those who are afar are attracted. — Confucius Copy Share Image
I like Stella McCartney, Chloe, Alexander McQueen, Aaron Featherstone, normal Chanel if I can ever afford it, I'd be wearing that all the time!… — Brittany Snow Copy Share Image
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar. — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
