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“Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.”

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Author:Philip James Bailey

“The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.”

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Book:The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians

Source: The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians, and Macedonians

“Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.”

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Author:Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

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Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life