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Quote by Edmund Hillary

“I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.”

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Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, best known for his ascent of Mount Everest. He was born on July 20, 1919, and passed away on January 11, 2008. more

“I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.”

Ifs Feels Long Feelings Seems Blood Advantage Capacity Flow Regard Useless Veins Stimulation

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I don't spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I've - if it did occur - that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.”

Ifs Thinking Dies Too Much Dying

Author:Edmund Hillary

“Art is a shadow of Divine perfection.”

Art Divine Art Is Shadow Perfection

Author:Michelangelo

“No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.”

Art Ends Mastery

Author:Michelangelo

“So take care of your life and take notice and be observant, for the number of widows is always far greater than the number of widowers.”

Care Death Numbers Greater Take Care Widows Observant Widowers

Author:Michelangelo

“Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.”

Knows Men World Giving Years Long Soul Body Lasts Death Joy Dies Fall Heaven Term Born Hours Sweet Birth Promise Late Gains Shame Errors Proof Too Late Repose

Author:Michelangelo

“The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.”

Heart Sweet Scent Beaten Bruised

Book:The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...

Source: The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...

“An idle man's brain is the devil's workshop.”

Men Brain Devil Idle Idleness Workshops

Author:John Bunyan

“It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.”

Chance Talent Personality Genius Errors Rise Above Pennies Commonplace

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When I am finished painting, I paint again for relaxation.”

Painting Paint Finished Relaxation

Author:Pablo Picasso

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