Afar quotes

Afar

54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolo Machiavelli Political Philosopher, Historian

"And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure."

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Jack London
Jack London Novelist, Journalist

"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."

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Mencius
Mencius Philosopher

"The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things."

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Chris Johnson Athlete
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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."

Way Brushes Afar
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Rainer Maria Rilke Poet, Novelist
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"Comfort me from wherever you are–alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?"

Comfort Worn Afar
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Mencius Philosopher
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"The way is One and only One. The way is close at hand, but men seek it afar."

Men Hands Afar
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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist
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"Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour."

Lasts Hours Afar
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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote."

Book Care Afar
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