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Mountaineers do it showing excellent technique on the peak.
Mountaineers do it with ropes.
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in people.
Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
-- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- The Task, Book ii, The Timepiece, Line 17...
Mountains should be seen and not heard.
Mountains standing close together: The image of Keeping Still.
Thus the superior man Does not permit his thoughts To go beyond his situation....
Mountain under heaven: the image of Retreat. Thus the superior man keeps the inferior man at a distance, Not angrily but with reserve.

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