Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. [ Goldsmith ]

O Thou, whose certain eye foresees
The fixed event of fate's remote decrees. [ Homer ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. [ Diderot ]

He may rate himself a happy man who lives remote from the gods of this world. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The pains we take in books or arts which treat of things remote from the necessaries of life is a busy idleness. [ Fuller ]

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. [ Macaulay ]

Happy the man who, remote from busy life, is content, like the primitive race of mortals, to plough his paternal lands with his own oxen, freed from all borrowing and lending. [ Horace ]

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary. [ Hazlitt ]