Of how little value is a ship standing helpless on the stocks--but half-built, and yet building--to one who has no knowledge of the ocean, or of what that helpless hulk will become the moment she slides into her element, and rises and falls upon the flood with joyous greeting!
This quote illustrates the potential of something unfinished, emphasizing the importance of vision and knowledge in recognizing value.
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She will be rolled up in a corner, like a cocoon waiting for its transmigration.
It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.
Is it my excited ear that hears an airy phantasm whispering? or do I hear a solemn voice crying out, "Arise?
The conflict which is going on springs from causes as deep as the foundations of our institutions.