
“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
Australian Idol, Final Performances, Final 5
“High on the mountain, deep in the valley, I greet you a thousandfold.”
Notes on a postcard to Clara Schumann (12 September 1868)
“3769. One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.”
Source: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 12 (p. 132)
“Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.”
From interview with Komal Nahta
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Letter to John Adams (1774)
“The nation is ruined, but mountains and rivers remain.”
"Spring View" (trans. Gary Snyder), written in 755.
Variant translation (by David Hinton): The nation falls into ruins; rivers and mountains continue.