Famous quotes containing the words mark, stack and/or control:
“Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepersask any man among em what my poetry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If hes an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slummark that!”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sunit is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder. The communication by the glance is in the greatest part not subject to the control of the will. It is the bodily symbol of identity with nature. We look into the eyes to know if this other form is another self, and the eyes will not lie, but make a faithful confession what inhabitant is there.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)