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Updated: May 18, 2025
He had it in his heart of gold to feel pleasure in the presents which his friends took pleasure in giving him. The character and quality of the gifts were not determining factors. We cannot analyze this disposition. We can only admire it from afar.
She tried to think no more of Mogar, but her thoughts centred round it, linked it with this great city, whose lights shone in the distance below her, whose music came to her from afar over the silence of the sands. Mogar and Amara; what had they to do with one another? Leagues of desert divided them. One was a desolation, the other was crowded with men. What linked them together in her mind?
It lay nearest the western shore; and not a hamlet or even a house, it seemed, commanded it from either side. They recognized it from afar as ideal anchorage for a yacht which wanted to be let alone.
Panels from left to right, facing court: "In Nature's infinite book of secrecy a little I can read," from "Antony and Cleopatra," by Shakespeare, the English poet; "Facing west from California's shores, Inquiring, tireless, seeking what is yet unfound, I, a child, very old, over waves, toward the house of maternity, the land of migrations, look afar,
Does this contain everything?" "Where else should it be? Everybody lives for himself. Each of us wishes the best for himself. And what is the best? To go in front of others, to stand above them. So that everybody is trying to attain the first place in life one by this means, another by that means. But everyone is positively anxious to be seen from afar, like a tower.
So a flock of ducks may look from afar like a continuous black line or band, although if we were near them we should perceive that a considerable space separates each individual from his neighbors.
"My dear Bev, of course I do stand still, damn you though we are rivals, we're friends first curse your livers and bones so jump up, Bev, and oh dammem, there's no holding 'em quick, up with you." Now, as Barnabas stepped forward, afar off up the lane he chanced to espy a certain jaunty hat, and immediately, acting for once upon impulse, he shook his head. "No, thanks," said he.
We shall love the Judge, and speak of him with reverence, for that sublime act of kindness before the Capitol in 1861. Abraham Lincoln might have prayed on that day of the Freeport debate: "Forgive him, Lord. He knows not what he does." Lincoln descried the danger afar, and threw his body into the breach.
Reality, he says, is uncreated, indestructible, unchanging, indivisible; it is "immovable in the bonds of mighty chains, without beginning and without end; since coming into being and passing away have been driven afar, and true belief has cast them away."
It was delightful to look at myself an ideal self from afar off with your eyes; it made me feel as if I could be all you thought me; it made me wish to be so; and it also made me more sorry than anything to have you think so highly of me when I did not deserve it.
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