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The plague of gold strikes far and near. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Princes have big ears which hear far and near. -- Elizabeth I
Young leaves The sound of a waterfall Heard from far and near. -- Yosa Buson
On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear. -- Pearl S. Buck
Act after having made assessments. The one who first knows the measure of far and near wins - this is the rule of armed struggle. -- Sun Tzu
Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. -- Robert Morgan
All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!("The Jelly-Fish") -- David H. Keller
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! -- Ada Cambridge
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. -- Abraham Cahan
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee. -- Aneurin Bevan
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other. -- Dan Quayle
For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation. -- Simone Weil
I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland. -- Raymond Burr
Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door. -- Meister Eckhart
The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff. -- Charles Stross
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard. -- Nate Holland
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? -- Khalil Gibran
A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far. -- Jon Meacham
We are so caught up in our media, in our jobs, in our gossip, and in our consuming that we genuinely feel like we don't have the time or energy to bother ourselves with the tribulations of nations near and far. -- Tinashe
I can't play anywhere near like I used to, and I was a hot drummer. It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese. -- Phil Collins
It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Don't look so far, when it is so near. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. -- Euripides
The Tao is near and people seek it far away. -- Mencius
Near, far wherever you are...you're here in my heart. -- Celine Dion
Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near. -- Uri Shulevitz
Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. -- Helen Rowland
Happiness is often somewhere near us, not in the far places! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away. -- Hakuin Ekaku
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided. -- Noam Chomsky
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north. -- Robert Menzies
Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near. -- Sun Tzu
Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. -- Sophocles
When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away -- Sun Tzu
If you make happy those that are near, those that are far will come. -- Grace Lin
Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense. -- Amelia Earhart
To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes near to the worth of staying at home. -- Henry David Thoreau
Near or far, there are burdens and terrors in sisterhood, and perhaps the nearer, the more complicated. -- Helen Yglesias
What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics. -- Edward M. Lerner
I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand. -- John Harvey Kellogg
Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away. -- Jaggi Vasudev
Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star. -- Alice Riley
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. -- Samuel Rutherford
Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are. -- Grace Noll Crowell
When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength. -- Winston Churchill
There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away. -- Robert Henri
I'm from an island, so I've always been near the water. I don't think I could live somewhere far from the sea. -- Sigrid Agren
I love you, always forever Near and far, close and together Everywhere, I will be with you Everything, I will do for you. -- Donna Lewis
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far. -- Robert Browning
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. -- Francis Thompson
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship. -- Rajneesh
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. -- Irving Babbitt
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine. -- Sara Teasdale
A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. -- Albert Pike
Ah, to that far distant strand Bridge there was not to convey, Not a bark was near at hand, Yet true love soon found the way. -- Friedrich Schiller
Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity. -- David Folkenflik
Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it. -- Dogen
We always imagine that the Supreme Being is very far away -many, many millions of light years away- yet It is very near, in our throat itself. -- Krishnananda Saraswati
When I was far away, when I prayed every night, I felt I was very near with my heart, with my brain, to my sisters and my mom. -- Riccardo Tisci
Now may every living thing, young or old,weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn,may every living thing be full of bliss." -- Anonymous

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