On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.
As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.
You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.
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