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Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold

Other quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

I dont know Who — or what — put the question, I dont know when it was put. I dont even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone –or Something –and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Enlightenment, The
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Dag Hammarskjold
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. – Dag Hammarskjold

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History
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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau

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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, youre better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature – and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century. – James Buchan

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Nature

The dance of the palm trees, the oceans calling, the first rays of sun and heaven is here. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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Nature

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper

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Nature

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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The great man is the man who has the courage to act. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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The person who doesnt scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs. – Hunter S. Thompson

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