Quotes About Precipices

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Besides, in any country so well supplied with precipices as this one, a man doesn't need special tools to end his woes. By his expression, this, too, was a picture Oswyl would have preferred to live without.

There was a peculiar fascination for Dorothea in this division of property intended for herself, and always regarded by her as excessive. She was blind, you see, to many things obvious to others - likely to tread in the wrong places, as Celia had warned her; yet her blindness to whatever did not lie in her own pure purpose carried her safely by the side of precipices where vision would have been perilous with fear.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light,    And precipices show untrodden green; There is a budding morrow in midnight;    There is triple sight in blindness keen Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green, There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen;

Every bridge is a holy saint; it helps everyone who comes to him and protects them from the precipices!