Distance

"DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep."

"Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror — of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny."

"I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I've left the Past in God's keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near."

"'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue."

"In notes by distance made more sweet."

"As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air."

"From a distance, there is harmony And it echoes through the land It's the voice of hope, it's the voice of peace It's the voice of every man."

"From a distance we are instruments Marching in a common band Playing songs of hope, playing songs of peace They're the songs of every man."

"From a distance you look like my friend Even though we are at war From a distance I just cannot comprehend What all this war is for."

"From a distance there is harmony And it echoes through the land And it's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves It's the heart of every man (Every man). It's the hope of hopes, it's the love of loves This is the song of every man."

"Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires."

"Love is like a landscape which doth stand Smooth at a distance, rough at hand."

"Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it."

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."

"By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."

"Already, the distance between what I was and am is insurmountable — like an ant contemplating the Cosmos. I knew it would be so … yet still I hoped. I guess there is really nothing left to say."

"Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence. Following this thought we now realize, forcibly enough to dispense with argument, that of all other conquests of man, without exception, that which is most desirable, which would be most helpful in the establishment of universal peaceful relations is — the complete ANNIHILATION OF DISTANCE."

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

"Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But look'd too near have neither heat nor light."

"Sweetest melodies. Are those that are by distance made more sweet."

"Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice; Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye, Frozen by distance."

"We're charm'd with distant views of happiness, But near approaches make the prospect less."