"The mountains are beautiful but they are not worth dying for."
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"On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make excursions to Mount Ktaadn, the second highest mountain in New England, about thirty miles distant, and to some of the lakes of the Penobscot, either alone or with such company as I might pick up there."
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"It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known."
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"Men meet; mountains, never."
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"The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine."
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"With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"
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"It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind."
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"We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks."
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"The mountains are fountains not only of rivers and fertile soil, but of men."
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"Galen Clark was the best mountaineer I ever met, and one of the kindest and most amiable of all my mountain friends."
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"With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics."
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"Albert Einstein once reported, "Great spirits have always encountered voilent opposition from mediocre minds." If you want to achieve your own greatness, to climb your own mountains, you'll have to use yourself as your first and last consultant."
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"Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached."
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"Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth."
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"The here-and-now mountain is a tiny piece of a piece of straw blown off into emptiness."
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"For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire."
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"It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or damaged, mountains of odds and ends - the stand testament to the fact that they have things now, where before they had nothing."
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"In the mountains of wisdom no climbing is in vain."
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"A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself."
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"The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it."
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