Loadstone Quotes
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When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
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As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.
Richard Baxter— A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1
In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command.
Herman Melville— Ch. 27 (White-Jacket (1850))
When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds.
— Reported in Maturin Murray Ballou, Treasury of thought: Forming an encyclopedia of quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors (1884), p. 460.
When man seized the loadstone of science , the loadstar of superstition vanished in the clouds .
william r. alger— In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 544:20.
