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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher

Down, Top, View

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Together, Dream, Lord

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Great, After, Climb

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.
Victor Hugo

Snow, Together, Happen

I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
William Wordsworth

Music, Heart, Long

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Remember, Once, Begin

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Rudyard Kipling

Love, Mother, Follow

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
William Butler Yeats

Best, Down, Rest

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Laugh, Joy, Voice

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham

Nature, Down, Soul

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Robin Hayes

Women, Men, Best

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
John Wycliffe

Life, Enemy, Wind

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Live, Together, House

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda

Poetry, Rain, Between

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
Rupert Brooke

Sun, Lovely, Grass

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sunshine, Old, House

Faith Hill is a big role model.
Taylor Swift

Faith, Big, Role

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.
Tom Felton

Love, Work, Country

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.
Gertrude Stein

Down, While, Looking

If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!
Shel Silverstein

Thinking, Enough, Tough

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.
Duke Kahanamoku

Rain, Down, Frozen

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as opposed to what they say. Also, it's about working together - we're all on the rope together, and you don't get to cut the rope if you're not getting along with someone.
Mark Udall

Someone, Together, Working

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
Jeremy Taylor

Revenge, Him, Violence

Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
T. E. Lawrence

Family, Men, Free

Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.
Sarah Palin

America, Promise, City

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.
Billy Corgan

Rock, Lost, Mean

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.
Shirley MacLaine

Understand, Order, Baggage

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett

Down, Top, View

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.
Ron Fournier

Find, Public, Policy

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.
Susan Orlean

Live, Different, Country

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