A Quote by Seneca the Younger
A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
We do not allow dwarf tossing. If you toss a dwarf, the dwarf will be tossed right back at you, but faster.
If it looks like a Dwarf, and it smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf or a latrine wearing dungerees.
A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.
Silverfish looked down. "Oh. Are you a dwarf?" Cuddy gave him a blank stare. "Are you a giant?" he said. "Me? Of course not!" "Ah. Then I must be a dwarf, yes."
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.
I know truth is more like a mountain that has to be scaled. The peak of the mountain pierces the clouds and can only rarely be seen, and has never been reached. And what you see of it, moreover, depends upon the flank of the mountain you stand upon, and how exhausted getting even so far has made you. Virtue lies in looking upwards, toiling upwards, and sometimes joyously leaping from one precarious crag of fact and feeling to the next.
Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself
Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
My disappointments stand up and grow ever taller. They will not be lost to me.
The path to the mountain ahead of you? is not the path you took to the mountain you stand on.
Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain's summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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