#farther

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. ↗

— George Herman

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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe. ↗

— Edwin Powell Hubble

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Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects. ↗

— Ellsworth Huntington

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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