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Praise a hill, but keepe below.
We go by the lighthouse; paddle out. After we got out, we paddled way down to get the biggest peak.
The hill, though high, I desire to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend;
For Iperceive
I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.
General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains.
The summit is not the only place on the mountain.
St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
Stand strong. Stand firm.
Stand tall like tower.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.
Like a mountain that's growing.
Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
Then the substratum will rise up to the top.
It is simple.
Follow this.
If obstacles are large, jump higher.
You climb for the hell of it.
For the mountains shall depart
Over hill and under hill
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far higher in the sky than imagination had dared to suggest the white summit of Everest appeared.
I don't conquer, I submit.
They remounted and rode across the pastures for
He that riseth betimes hath some thing in his head.
Get on top of the obstacles
and they become vantage points.
The way to rise is to obey and please.
Mountain is mountain.
Thee lift me, and I lift thee, and together we ascend.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
And high above, depicted in a tower,
Sat Conquest, robed in majesty and power,
Under a sword that swung above his head,
Sharp-edged and hanging by a subtle thread.
In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.
Though the darkest of clouds may hide the summit I will persist until it is reached
Floating high on the waters of catastrophe
Further up and further in-- C.s. Lewis
The best way to move a mountain is one stone at a time. Nothing is insurmountable if you take one step before you take the next.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.
The bar raises as you go.
Conquer, but don't triumph.
This hill though high I covent ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend;
For I perceive the way of life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
There are high places that don't invite us, sharp shapes, glacier-scraped faces, whole ranges whose given names slip off. Any such relation as we try to make refuses to take ... I'm giddy with thinking where thinking can't stick.
No Names
You must rise above
The gloomy clouds
Covering the mountaintop
Otherwise, how will you
Ever see the brightness?
Success consists in the climb.
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller ...
Elevation at times require separation.
I don't climb mountains. Mountains climb me. The mountain is myself. I climb on myself.
I climb, I backtrack. I float. I ramble my way home.
Conquer, but never triumph.
See well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.
Stay not where the lowlands are! Climb not into the sky! The world looks best by far when viewed from halfway high.
see past the surface to the tides below.
Adversity is mountain in adventure
There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.
crowning the ramparts, drawing an uneven star shape around the entire model. She finds the opening atop the walls where four ceremonial cannons point to
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
triangle of my mons,
From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
Vertically, I climb your body's majestic rhyme.
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were alwaysin my debt, without my owing them anything. It placed me above the judge whom, I in turn judged, above the defendant whom I forced into gratitude.
May you climb higher heights.
Clouds very high look
not one word helped them get up there
... You conquer me.
Whence come the highest mountains? so did I once ask. Then did I learn that they come out of the sea.
That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height.
Master the courage to conquer any mountain
The columns of mounted men moved forward, passed out through the gates of the Palace of Karma, turned off the roadway and headed up the slope that lay to the southeast of the city of Mahartha, comrades blazing like the dawn at their back.
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea.
It stands on a slight eminence
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
Sometimes, life is like mountain climbing. After you've achieved your biggest goals, you must return to the starting point to complete the journey and share your story with others to encourage them for their climb.
Climb greater heights to obtain a new perspective.
A wounded dear leaps the highest
You can conquer any mountain with faith, hope and courage.
Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies
You will hardly conquer, but conquer you must.
[Lat., Male vincetis, sed vincite.]
Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.
They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.
Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.
I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
They say behind mountains are more mountains.
Shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league
If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.
Conquer no man than yourself.
untangled him and carried him out. High above
We rise by lifting others.
looked like a makeshift parking lot, climbed
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.
Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
We must not expect simple answers to far-reaching questions. However far our gaze penetrates, there are always heights beyond which block our vision.
mound. It towered above us in ancient, grassy splendor, the
Thin rays of orange creep up Tower Bridge and I realize I have never seen the sunrise from here. I had no idea that it could rise, almost perfectly, between the two towers of the bridge. This new light is a new day, and Timothy Squire and I watch it together.
We are the mountains we must cross.
Don't climb on others to get to the top;
soar like an eagle.
Stand tall like a tower of God.
You have to conquer the mountain if you are going any futher
You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.
He did not feel the ground under his feet - he thrust himself into the capriole, rose high in the air-forelegs and hind legs horizontal. He soared above the ground, he head in jubilation. Conquering!
There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.
You can certainly have days where you feel your goals are insurmountable. However, you exhibit true tenacity when you can climb toward the insurmountable peak and begin to see the clear skies above.
I could mount you until I die.
Phall if you but will, rise you must.
Rise above storms.
Sail against tides.
Succeed against the odds.
And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.