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How to use the word CLIMB in a Sentence? Page #9

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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

– Robert Burton

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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

– Cyrano Savinien de Bergerac

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From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

– Jason Berg

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

– George Bernard Shaw

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One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

– Thomas Fuller

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To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

– John Muir

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To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

– William Shakespeare

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

– Winston Churchill

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

– William Congreve

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Climb mountains to see lowlands.

– Chinese Proverb

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It is easy to go down into hell night and day, the gates of dark death stand wide, but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

– Virgil

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I do not ask to walk smooth paths nor bear an easy load. I pray for strength and fortitude to climb the rock strewn road. Give me such courage and I can scale the hardest peaks alone, And transform every stumbling block into a stepping stone.

– Gale Brook Burket

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Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen depart, be lost, but climb.

– Edna St. Vincent Millay

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The bigger the hill you climb, The more you can see from the top, The more you enjoy the ride down, And the longer the ride lasts.

– Frank Stephens

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Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving.

– Andrew Schneider

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Keep close to nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

– John Muir

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