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Binoculars are a distance when near the eyes. Far from home, near the heart, love. – Charles de LEUSSE
I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within. – Lillian Smith
It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them. – John Shirley
The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult. – Marquise du Deffand
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle
A hundred long leagues is no distance for him who would quench the thirst of covetousness; but a contented mind has no solicitude for grasping wealth. – The Hitopadesa
A wise beautiful lake never desires to be famous, because fame dirty it! To remain pure, distance yourself from the reputation! – Mehmet Murat ildan
All such distinctions as tend to set the orders of the state at a distance from each other are equally subversive of liberty and concord. – Livy
And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave---until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. – John Green
Beauty in a modest woman is like fire at a distance, or like a sharp sword: neither doth the one burn nor the other wound him that comes not too near them. – Cervantes
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime. – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance. – Biblical Proverb
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. – Albert Einstein
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. – Steven Wright
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. – Rudyard Kipling
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I've learned that true friendship continues to grow, Even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love. – Unknown
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son! – Rudyard Kipling
If you do not have the concept of distance, you may reach an unreachable place! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. – Carlyle
It is not easy to stop the fire when the water is at a distance; friends at hand are better than relations afar off. – Chinese

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