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Letter "M" » mountains
«I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.»
«May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.»
Author: Edward Abbey
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Writer)
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Keywords:
amazing,
clouds,
crooked,
leading,
lonesome,
mountains,
rise,
The Clouds,
trailing,
trails,
view,
winding,
windings,
wind rose
«Men trip not on mountains, they trip on molehills»
«Society speaks and all men listen, mountains speak and wise men listen»
«I can't do with mountains at close quarters -- they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.»
«On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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About:
Power,
Truth
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Keywords:
climb,
higher power,
higher up,
in vain,
mountains,
mountain climbing,
powers,
training,
vain
«I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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About:
Doing Your Best
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Keywords:
climbed,
commonly,
expected,
guide,
higher,
highway,
high time,
mountains,
mountain climbing,
path,
patience,
several,
smoother,
smoothest,
The Guide,
travel
«Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.»
«Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(
Bishop,
Theologian)
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About:
Mankind,
Men
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Keywords:
abroad,
circular,
compass,
compasses,
compassing,
courses,
heights,
huge,
Long Course,
motions,
mountains,
mountain pass,
ocean,
pass by,
rivers,
River Went,
The Long,
The Sea,
vast,
waves,
wondering
«Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'»
Author: William Blake
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Engraver,
Mystic,
Painter,
Poet)
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Keywords:
ages,
firm,
mountains,
persuasion,
persuasions,
poets,
removed,
replied