England Lost

Famous quotes containing the words england and/or lost:

“I know no more affecting lesson to our busy, plotting New England brains, than to go into one of our factories with which we have lined all the watercourses in the States. A man hardly knows how much he is a machine, until he begins to make telegraph, loom, press, and locomotive, in his own image.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When the old man on the border lost his horse, who could know that it was good fortune in disguise?”
—Chinese proverb.