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"In notes by distance made more sweet."
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"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."
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Distance is a numerical or occasionally qualitative measurement of how far apart objects, points, people, or ideas are. In physics or everyday usage, distance may refer to a physical length or an estimation based on other criteria. The term is also frequently used metaphorically to mean a measurement of the amount of difference between two similar objects or a degree of separation. Most such notio
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"T is distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue."
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"As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air."
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"Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires."
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"Were charmd with distant views of happiness, But near approaches make the prospect less."
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"Australias distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror — a hollow conqueror — of the distance which so often shaped Australias destiny."
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