Distance

“'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 nearWe find but desert rocks and fleeting air.”

“From a distance, there is harmony It's the voice of every man.”

“From a distance we are instruments They're the songs of every man.”

“From a distance you look like my friend What all this war is for.”

“Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires.”

“Love is like a landscape which doth standSmooth 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 guess there is really nothing left to say.”

“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;Frozen by distance.”

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