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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Far

Far as good is above evil.
—Anonymous

As far from the heart as from the eyes.
—Anonymous

As far as finite is from infinite.
—Philip James Bailey

Far as mortal eye can compass sight.
—Lord Byron

Atom from atom yawns as far
As moon from earth, or star from star.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far as poles asunder.
—James Sheridan Knowles

Afar as angels or the sainted dead.
—George MacDonald

Far as imagination’s eye can roll.
—James Montgomery

Far as human man is from the brute.
—Lewis Morris

As far as sleep from waking.
—John G. Neihardt

And no star
Is from thy mortal path so far
As streets where childhood knew the way.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

As far from help as limbo is from bliss.
—William Shakespeare

So far from sounding and discovery,
As is the bud bit with an envious worm,
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.
—William Shakespeare

Far as the remotest line
That bounds imagination’s flight.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Burning far, like the light of an unmeasured star.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Far as heaven’s red labouring eye could glance.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Far as hope from joy or sleep from truth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Far from earth as heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Far and wide, like the falcon that hunts through the sky.
—Esaias Tegner