Wáng Ānshí de " zì yuán shēn zài zuì gāo céng " shuō de shì zhàn de gāo cái néng kàn de yuǎn.
Wang Anshi's 'only because I stand on the highest level' means you see far only when you stand high.
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history
The last line of 王安石's 登飞来峰, after 不畏浮云遮望眼 'I do not fear that drifting clouds will block my view'. He wrote it in 1050, at thirty, on his way home from a post as county magistrate, and it is often read as a young reformer's confidence.
usage
His collected works and today's school textbooks read 自 'simply'; 缘 is 'because'. The form many people quote, 只缘身在最高层, echoes 苏轼's 只缘身在此山中.
