Foxes prey farthest from their earths. [ Proverb ]

Unhappy he! who from the first of joys.
Society, cut off, is left alone
Amid this world of death. Day after day.
Sad on the jutting eminence he sits,
And views the main that ever toils below;
Still fondly forming in the farthest verge,
Where the round ether mixes with the wave.
Ships, dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds;
At evening, to the setting sun he turns
A mournful eye, and down his dying heart
Sinks helpless. [ Thomson ]

They that live longest must go farthest for wood. [ Proverb ]

God comes at last, when we think He is farthest off. [ Proverb ]

God is at the end when we think he is farthest off it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Seamen are the nearest to death and the farthest to God. [ Proverb ]

The farthest from the fear are often Dearest to the stroke of fate. [ Young ]

Of all the lights you carry in your face, joy shines farthest out to sea.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase; as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. [ Burton ]