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«Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.»

Author: Dag Hammarskjold (Statesman) | Keywords: height, in height, low, lowing, lows, measure, mountain, reached, top, topped, topping

«Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: companions, flight, heights, in flight, in height, kept, Night, obtained, reached, sleep out, sleep over, slept, sudden, take flight, The Night, toiled, toiling, upward, while

«Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.»

Author: Peace Pilgrim (Spiritual leader, Teacher) | Keywords: feet, grinding, ground, grounding, ground out, heights, in height, loftier, lofty, thoughts

«A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.»

Author: Stephen Wright (Actor, Writer) | Keywords: afraid, a lot, heights, in height, lot, width, widths

«Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height; / I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.»

Author: Bible | Keywords: boughs, heathen, in height, the heathen, wickedness

«Therefore, be ye lamps unto yourselves, be a refuge to yourselves. Hold fast to Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone beside yourselves. And those, who shall be a lamp unto themselves, shall betake themselves to no external refuge, but holding fast to the Truth as their lamp, and holding fast to the Truth as their refuge, they shall reach the topmost height.»

Author: Buddha | Keywords: external, externals, fast, height, holding, hold fast, in height, lamp, lamps, not for, reach, refuge, therefore, topmost

«He should be praised for climbing; yetThe other man comes always from a heightAnd lives where praise can never get --Beyond your sight.»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: beyond, climbing, climb on, height, in height, on sight, praise, praised, sight, sighting, The Climb, yet

«My downfall raises me to infinite heights.»

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, General, Politician) | Keywords: downfall, heights, infinite, in height, raises

«Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length»

Author: Robert Frost | Keywords: height, in height, in length, lacks, length

«It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.»

Author: Seneca | Keywords: greatness, heights, in height, leads, road, rough, rougher, roughest, roughs

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