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• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Christmas, Mother, Baby

  Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas Day Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2012.

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• Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Grace, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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• Love everybody. If they do you wrong or they brush you the wrong way it's OK, you don't have to hold on to that, you can still love them from afar; you don't have to really deal with them.

  Chris Johnson

  Way, Brushes, Deals

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• Yes, I have dreams. I ofttimes dream of Love As radiant and brilliant as a star. As changeless, too, as that fixed light afar Which glorifies vast worlds of space above.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Dream, Stars

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1414, Delphi Classics

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• I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

  Kathleen Madigan

  People, Office, Psychology

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• What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?

  Isaiah

  Running, Riches, Helping

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,-a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

  Daniel Webster

  Morning, Military, Power

  Speech in the Senate on the President's Protest, 7 May 1834

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• O ye by wandering tempest sown
  'Neath every alien star,
  Forget not whence the breath was blown
  That wafted you afar!
  For ye are still her ancient seed
  On younger soil let fall—
  Children of Britain's island-breed,
  To whom the Mother in her need
  Perchance may one day call.

  William Watson

  Mother, Stars, Children

  William Watson, “England And Her Colonies”

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• Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

  John Webster

  Shine Bright, Light, Shining

  'The Duchess of Malfi' (1623) act 4, sc. 2, l. 148

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• Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

  Jack London

  Life, Facts, Wander

  Jack London, Anna B. Strunsky, Anna Strunsky Walling, Douglas Robillard (1990). “The Kempton-Wace Letters”, p.85, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

  William Hazlitt

  Dream, Hurt, Stars

  William Hazlitt (1930). “The Complete Works of William Hazlitt”, Toronto, Dent

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• The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1020, Delphi Classics

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• The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar.

  Mencius

  Men, Hands, Way

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• The world is full of warfare 'twixt the evil and the good;I watched the battle from afar as one who understoodThe shouting and confusion, the bloody, blundering fight-How few there are that see it clear, how few that wage it right!

  Henry Van Dyke

  Fighting, Evil, Confusion

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Butterfly

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar, Some white tremendous daybreak.

  Rupert Brooke

  Night, White, Waiting

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.7, Delphi Classics

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• Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Uplifting, Stars, Opportunity

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• The forehead of every work must shine from afar.

  Pindar

  Light, Shining, Foreheads

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• Men love to trust God (as they profess) for what they have in their hands, in possession, or what lies in an easy view; place their desires afar off, carry their accomplishment behind the clouds out of their sight, interpose difficulties and perplexities -- their hearts are instantly sick. They cannot wait for God; they do not trust Him, nor ever did. Would you have the presence of God with you? Learn to wait quietly for the salvation you expect from Him.

  Owen Wilson

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• The whole wide world is a cathedral; I stand inside, the air is calm, And from afar at times there reaches My ear the echo of a psalm.

  Boris Pasternak

  Echoes, Air, Ears

  1958 When It Clears Up (translated by Lydia Pasternak Slater).

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• And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and fainting faith.

  Gerald Massey

  Stars, Dark, Jewels

  Gerald Massey (1861). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey”, p.14

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• In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

  Bayard Taylor

  Soil, Emotion, Imagine

  Bayard Taylor (1855). “The Lands of the Saracen: Or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain”, p.84

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• With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.

  Otto Weininger

  Men, Rivers, Ordinary

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.124, Рипол Классик

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• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. I have always believed God to be without form. What I did hear was like a Voice from afar, and yet quite near.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Voice, Oneness

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• Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star
  Biggest puzzle from afar
  How unlike the other ones
  Brighter than a billion suns
  Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star
  How I wonder what you are.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Science, Sun

  George Gamow (1965). “Matter, Earth, and Sky”

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