"What wonders lie in every mountain day!"
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"We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri."
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"The mountains themselves call us into greater stories."
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"The man of humanity delights in mountains"
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"Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way."
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"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain."
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"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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"The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there-so there the mountain stays."
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"Someone unfamiliar with the mountains and forests cannot advance [the team]. One who does not employ local guides cannot gain the advantage."
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"Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy."
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"The Mississippi, the Ganges, and the Nile,... the Rocky Mountains, the Himmaleh, and Mountains of the Moon, have a kind of personal importance in the annals of the world."
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"When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity."
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"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
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"February... Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains."
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"Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills."
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"The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke."
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"In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth."
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"Whoever climbed the Lord's mountain had to possess clean hands and an innocent heart; otherwise the Summit would kill him. Today the doorway is deserted. Soiled hands and sinful hearts are able to pass by without fear, for the Summit kills no longer."
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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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"With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand."
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