Beacon Edge

Famous quotes containing the words beacon and/or edge:

    “It was a remarkable kind of light to steer for,—daylight seen through a vista in the forest,—but visible as far as an ordinary beacon at night.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “It was her stern necessity: all things
    Are of one pattern made; bird, beast, and flower,
    Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
    And are but one. Beheld far off, they differ
    As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
    They dull its edge with their monotony.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)