Partially Hardened Vegetable

Famous quotes containing the words partially, hardened and/or vegetable:

    I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You first have an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)