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• Resolve says, 'I will.' The man says, 'I will climb this mountain. They told me it is too high, too far, too steep, too rocky, and too difficult. But it's my mountain. I will climb it. You will soon see me waving from the top or dead on the side from trying.'

  Jim Rohn

  Men, Trying, Mountain

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 31, 2016

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• O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Fall, Men, Long

  "No worst, there is none" l. 9 (written 1885)

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• Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Names, Effort, Ignorant

  "Who armed Iraq?" by Paul Rockwell, www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2003.

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• I shall never forget my admiration for that German pilot, who single handed, fought seven of us for ten minutes. I saw him go into a fairly steep dive and so I continued to watch, and then saw the triplane hit the ground and disappear into a thousand fragments, for it seemed to me that it literally went into powder.

  James McCudden

  Watches, Pilots, Saws

  James McCudden (2009). “Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps”, p.200, Casemate / Greenhill

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• Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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• Sometimes I think of Abraham
  How one star he saw had been lit for me
  He was a stranger in this land
  And I am that, no less than he
  And on this road to righteousness
  Sometimes the climb can be so steep
  I may falter in my steps
  But never beyond your reach

  Rich Mullins

  Stars, Thinking, Land

  Song: Sometimes By Steps

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• My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Convince Us, Majority, Path

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The Finn is the most watery person in Europe... Here people take baths that last three or four hours and steep their bodies in water right down to their most secret selves.

  Angel Ganivet

  Self, Europe, People

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• I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Fall, Has Beens

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

  Robert Burns

  Sorrow, Prison, Couches

  Robert Burns, Robert Chambers (1838). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. To which are Now Added, Notes Illustrating Historical, Personal, and Local Allusions. [The Editor's Preface Signed: R. C., I.e. Robert Chambers.]”, p.88

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• You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The public's faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver.

  Ron Fournier

  Home, Leader, Political

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• A cherry pie is . . . ephemeral. From the moment it emerges from the oven it begins a steep decline: from too hot to edible to cold to stale to mouldy, and finally to a post-pie state where only history can tell you that it was once considered food. The pie is a parable of human life.

  Nick Harkaway

  Pie, Hot, Ephemeral

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• In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could not be, must not be, and upon which the penalty of death had been placed. Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it, the locomotive of my heart was rushing down a dangerously steep slope, heading for a collision, heedless of the warning red lights that blinked all about me, the sirens and the ells and the screams that filled the air.

  Richard Wright

  Heart, Night, Light

  Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback

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• Television, although It's in steep decline, still occasionally gives voices to people who don't have voices.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Aggravation, Voice, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and never wear them again.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beach, Cutting, Color

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.134, A&C Black

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• Virginius Pass, go across the Talus slope and pick up the route through the notch, it is steep, slippery, brutal.

  Karl Meltzer

  Notches, Brutal, Routes

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• Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

  John Jay Chapman

  Culture, Steps, Easy

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.88, University of Illinois Press

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• If you're laboring up a steep hill, imagine that a towrope is attached to the center of your chest, pulling you steadily toward the top.

  Jeff Galloway

  Hills, Imagine, Chests

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• Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, Essence, Alive

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough for capering rousters, for jumping, skipping, dancing dames but that broad, beaten, pleasant road that leads to hell. The gate of heaven is too narrow for whole rounds, whole troops of dancers to march in together.

  William Prynne

  Dance, Men, Jumping

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• Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Sleep, Fancy

  William Shakespeare (1867). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.298

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• The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Luxury, Soul

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3191, Delphi Classics

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• How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

  John Milton

  Air, Voice, Singing

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.286

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