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Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.
— Phillips Brooks
Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.
— Jerome
It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow.
— Ernest Hemingway
Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.
— Euripides
Get thee up into the high mountain… say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
— Anonymous
Go tell it on the mountain,Over the hills and everywhere;Go tell it on the mountain,That Jesus Christ is born.
— Anonymous
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
— Edmund Hillary
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
— Henry David Thoreau
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
— Martin Luther
Last, this great "mountain of friendship" will also become for you a place of refuge.
— Dutch Sheets
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
— Amelia Earhart
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus. From the mountain you see the mountain. We animate what we can, and we see only what we animate. Nature and books belong to the eyes
— Ralph Waldo Emerson