Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He climbs highest who helps another up.
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
Man has been adjudged a social animal.
Easier to climb up, than to just hang on.
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
You learn over years of expeditions that having faith, and putting one foot in front of the other, you do end up pulling off climbs that seem completely impossible. There's a certain beauty to that. It has an allure.
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