Famous quotes containing the words iron, works and/or hill:
“There is nothing but is related to us, nothing that does not interest us,kingdom, college, tree, horse, or iron show,the roots of all things are in man.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendour of beneficence.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Let go thy hold when a great wheel runs down a hill lest it break thy neck with following; but the great one that goes upward, let him draw thee after.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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