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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  African American, Words Of Wisdom, Matter

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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• You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Education, Memorable

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• There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Men, Errors

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1839). “On the Constitution of the Church and State According to the Idea of Each”, p.279

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• It is the eye which makes the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Perspective

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.262, Harvard University Press

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

  Christopher McCandless

  Adventure, Passion, Men

  In a letter to Russell Fritz (as known as Ron Franz), April 1992 in "Back to the Wild" by Chris McCandless and Mary Ellen Barnes, (2nd ed.), Twin Star Press, (pp. 135-137), 2013.

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• There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  World, Enjoy

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.138

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• With creative people, truly new horizons open up.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  People, Creative, New Horizons

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• You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.

  Edgar Magnin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking Flexibly

  Edgar Fogel Magnin (1951). “How to live a richer & fuller life”

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• A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

  John Powell

  Confidence, Spiritual, Grows

  JOHN POWELL (1967). “WHY AM I AFRAID TO LOVE?”

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Each step, each strain of the eye Opens out a new horizon; And every day throws in our way Something new, to grow more wise on.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• The health of the eye demands a horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Eye, Demand

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• Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

  Robert Breault

  Morning, Promise, Sun

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• The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tired, Eye, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.9, Modern Library

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Stars, Night

  'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 15, st. 99

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• I saw a man pursuing the horizon

  Stephen Crane

  Men, Saws, Disturbed

  Stephen Crane (2016). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.53, Courier Dover Publications

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• A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.

  Howard Thurman

  Dream, Hope, New Horizons

  Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr

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• When we are high up, everything looks very small.
  Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
  We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
  From the top of a mountain you can see
  how large the world is and how wide the horizon.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Travel, Inspiration

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• Only the man with a free mind has own the infinite horizons!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Mind, Infinite

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• Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

  Barbara Sher

  Country, Destination

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.

  Tom Petty

  Sky, Intention, Ends

  Song: All The Wrong Reasons

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• At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Choices, Doe, Looks

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.71, A&C Black

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• Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

  Regina Spektor

  Stars, Dark, Light

  Song: The Call

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• Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, Eye, Lines

  Warren G. Bennis (1997). “Managing People is Like Herding Cats”, Executive Excellence Pub

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• The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

  Christopher McCandless

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Letter to Russell Fritz, April 1992.

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