“I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.” IfsThinkingWorldShouldHeavenSunDesertRisingStand Alone Author:Margaret Fuller
“For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.” MenEarthHeavenRootsPlantFixedRisingHeavenly Author:Plutarch
“We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!” MindFirstsMayCountryPlayFeelingsLightLastsHeavenWishLibertyMorningSunObjectsProduceGratitudeGlorySightRisingNativeTemplesShoreDedicatedDependenceSummitPartingColumnsPiousSpires Book:An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843 Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843