Quotes 41 till 59 of 59.
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.
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There are two main principles I've picked up over the years as they pertain to cultivating the type of faith that moves mountains. The first is this: Faith comes by looking at God, not at the mountain. The second is this: God gives us faith as we walk by his side.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
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There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest.
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There's a world out there, and you've got to look at both sides of the mountain in your lifetime.
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These lies are like the father that begets them; gross as a mountain, open, palpable.
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They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.
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Things which have most hold on us, as the concealment of our few possessions, are often a mere nothing. It is a nothing which our imagination magnifies into a mountain.
Pensees (1669) -
Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
To Die for the People (1972) -
When the foot of the' mountain is enveloped in mist, the mountain appears to us much loftier than it is; so also when the ground and basis of a disaster is not clear to us.
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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
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Yes, and how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
The Freewheelin Bob Dylan (1963) -
[Officer standing on a mountain crest:] Beautiful view. Is there one for the enlisted men?
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