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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Og Mandino
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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings
Bible
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Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund Hillary
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Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains
Eric Hoffer
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'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Thomas Campbell
Quotes , Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 7)
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Mountains interposed
Make enemies of nations, who had else
Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. II, l. 17)
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Over the hills, and over the main,
To Flanders, Portugal, or Spain;
The Queen commands, and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
George Farquhar
Quotes , Source: The Recruiting Officer (act II, sc. 2)
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Over the hills and far away.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: The Beggar's Opera (act I, sc. 1)
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Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Oliver Goldsmith
Quotes , Source: The Deserted Village (l. 192)
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What is the voice of strange command
Calling you still, as friend calls friend,
With love that cannot brook delay,
To rise and follow the ways that wend
Over the hills and far away.
William Ernest Henley
Quotes , Source: Rhymes and Rhythms (1)
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Well, we knocked the bastard off!
Edmund Hillary
Quotes , Source: on being first to climb Mt. Everest in 1953, "Nothing Venture, Nothing Win" (1975) ch. 10
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Heav'd on Olympus tottering Ossa stood;
On Ossa, Pelion nods with all his wood.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Odyssey (bk. XI, l. 387), (Pope's translation)
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What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The
mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
[Lat., Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu?
Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.]
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Quotes , Source: Ars Poetica (138)
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Daily with souls that cringe and plot,
We Sinais climb and know it not.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Vision of Sir Launfal (prelude to pt. I)
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Because it's there.
George Leigh Mallory
Quotes , Source: on being asked why we wanted to climb Mt. Everest, in "New York Times", Mar. 18, 1923
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Going to the mountains is going home.
George Leigh Mallory
Quotes , Source: on being asked why we wanted to climb Mt. Everest, in "New York Times", Mar. 18, 1923
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Over the hills and o'er the main,
To Flanders, Portugal and Spain,
Queen Anne commands and we'll obey,
Over the hills and far away.
Old Song
Quotes , Source: The Merry Companion (song 173, p. 149)
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