Easy it is to bowl down hill. [ Proverb ]
Praise a hill, but keep below. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The noonday quiet holds the hill. [ Tennyson ]
To make a mountain of a mole hill. [ Proverb ]
The time draws near the birth of Christ:
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist. [ Tennyson ]
I am a heavy stone,
Rolled up a hill by a weak child: I move
A little up, and tumble back again. [ W. Rider ]
The higher the hill, the lower the grass. [ Proverb ]
The crystal-pointed tents from hill to hill. [ E. C. Stedman ]
Look, the morn, in russet mantle clad,
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]
O love, they die, in yon rich sky.
They faint on hill or field or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul.
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying. [ Tennyson ]
For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill,
To feel those tempests which fly over ditches. [ Herbert ]
You make a muck-hill on my trencher, quoth the bride. [ Proverb ]
He that stays in the valley shall never get over the hill. [ Proverb ]
Marriage is not, like the hill of Olympus, wholly clear, without clouds. [ Thomas Fuller ]
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, when down the hill he holds his fierce career? [ William Shakespeare ]
Knowledge is the hill which few; may hope to climb; duty is the path that all may tread. [ Lewis Morris ]
Now had night measured, with her shadowy cone, half-way up hill this vast sublunar vault. [ Milton ]
There's no slipping up hill again, and no standing still, when once you've begun to slip down. [ George Eliot ]
The history of persecution is a history of endeavor to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. [ Emerson ]
Hill and valley, seas and constellations, are but stereotypes of divine ideas appealing to and answered by the living soul of man. [ Chapin ]
Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. [ Wendell Phillips ]
That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. [ Goldsmith ]
He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]