Famous quotes containing the words upper and/or hill:
“If the upper beams are not straight, the lower beams will be crooked.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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