Turn Shaft Carries

Famous quotes containing the words turn, shaft and/or carries:

    “Life loiters at the book’s first page,—
    Ah! could we turn the leaf.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The subterranean miner that works in us all, how can one tell whither leads his shaft by the ever shifting, muffled sound of his pick?”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)