#shortest way

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

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Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. ↗

— James Joyce

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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. ↗

— Earle Brown

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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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