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Letter "C" » climb down
«I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody around him in order that he may go up with them.»
Author: Elihu Root
(Lawyer, Statesman)
| Keywords:
climb down, climb up, pull down, to a higher place
«When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.»
«The ambitious climbs up high and perilous stairs, and never cares how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up his fear of a fall»
Author: Thomas Adams
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ambitious, climb down, come down, down the stairs, perilous, stairs, swallowed
«Karen- Grace. It's Christmas, for goodness sake. Think about the baby Jesus: up in that tower, letting his hair down... so that the three wise men can climb up and spin the dradel and see if there are six more weeks of winter.»
Author: Will & Grace
| Keywords:
climb down, climb up, Karen, letting, spin, The three, Three Wise Men, tower, weeks, Wise Men
«If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree»
«It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task»
Author: Virgil
(Author, Poet)
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climb down, Gates, Gates of Hell, go down, Night and Day, retrace, rub, upper
«Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: / And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them: / And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.»
«In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
climb down, consisted, ladders, pilgrim, reach out
«Hardy went down to botanize in the swamp, while Meredith climbed towards the sun. Meredith became, at his best, a sort of daintily dressed Walt Whitman: Hardy became a sort of village atheist brooding and blaspheming over the village idiot.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blaspheming, botanize, climb down, daintily, dress down, Hardy, Meredith, swamp, swamps, The Swamp, Walt Whitman
«All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up»
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