"What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?"

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“To mount a hill is to lift with you something lighter and brighter than yourself or than any meaner burden. You lift the world, you raise the horizon; you give a signal for the distance to stand up.”

“I run, I run, I am gathered to thy heart.”

“Men in cities look upward not much more than animals, and these—except the dog when he bays the moon—look skyward not at all.”

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“If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.”

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