"The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change."

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In the height of thy prosperity expect adversity, but fear it not. If it come not, thou art the more sweetly possessed of the happiness thou hast, and the more strongly confirmed. If it come, thou art the more gently dispossessed of the happiness thou hadst, and the more firmly prepared.

— Francis Quarles