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Man’s attitude toward great qualities in others is often the same as toward high mountains – he admires them but he prefers to walk around them.

life, passion, adventure

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

life, passion, adventure

Courage is the lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.

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Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.

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Give us men to match our mountains, Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

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Abigail Van Buren

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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Finley Peter Dunne

Many a man that couldn’t direct ye to th’ drug store on th’ corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin’ when age has further impaired his mind.

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A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

life, passion, adventure

Stephen Leacock

Charles Dickens’ creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race – I say it in all seriousness – than Cardinal Newman’s Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

life, passion, adventure

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity

life, passion, adventure

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby, but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

life, passion, adventure

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

life, passion, adventure