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Emerson uses the image of a child hitching a wagon to a star to describe how a guiding idea lifts ordinary travel. It reads as a deliberate counterweight to his argument elsewhere in the essay about relying on one's own judgement.
Source: Society and Solitude
Quotes that share a topic with this one.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.