A Quote by George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

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George Eliot
British - Novelist
November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful.

Plato

Scripture indicates that heaven is not distant but rather... heaven is near in another realm.

Paul P. Enns

Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.

Novalis

We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.

Leonardo da Vinci

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Rabindranath Tagore

I hope and pray that despite an unhealed past full of atrocities and deep divisions in the present, God can and will make "the distant near" and a "brother of the stranger" in America's future.

Mitali Perkins

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.

Confucius

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

Indira Gandhi

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

Townsend Harris

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

Samuel Garth

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Thomas Wolfe

In an atmosphere of uniform density the most distant things seen through it, such as the mountains, in consequence of the great quantity of atmosphere which is between your eye and them, will appear blue. Therefore you should make the building... wall which is more distant less defined and bluer... five times as far away, make five times as blue.

Leonardo da Vinci

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

Benoit Mandelbrot

... a wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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