Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

    “The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.”
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “As the bird trims her to the gale,
    I trim myself to the storm of time,
    I man the rudder, reef the sail,
    Obey the voice at eve obeyed in prime:
    “Lowly faithful, banish fear,
    Right onward drive unharmed;
    The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
    And every wave is charmed.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)