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- - When Michael Angelo takes the castaway rock which he finds in his path and carves from it " The Young David;" when Herschel at the midnight hour, after playing his violin for a living, goes out and studies the star- lit skies, the field of his immortal conquest; when Elihu Burritt, working at the forge, grapples with mathematics, and masters several languages; when obstacles are overcome, and adversity yields to the invincible wills of men, then has opportunity by this self- made principle been hewn out of the very stumbling blocks which were in the way. - "A Fleece of Gold Five Lessons from the Fable of Jason and the Golden Fleece", Charles Stewart Given
- - Shakspere knew that love makes a man tidy, not untidy, hence Rosalind fails to find the artificial Greek symptoms of love in Orlando, while she admits that he carves her name on trees and hangs poems on them; acts of which lovers are quite capable. - "Primitive Love and Love-Stories", Henry Theophilus Finck
- - Mr. Moulder carves his turkey admirably, and Mr. Kantwise sells his tables and chairs with spirit. - "Autobiography of Anthony Trollope", Anthony Trollope