The Sign (May 1938) This has been misquoted as: The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.
“The vessel is as gold even though we may not always like the chasing.”
Preface to Letters of Samuel Rutherford, Religious tRact Society, London 1891.
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“The vessel, though her masts be firm,
Beneath her copper bears a worm.”
Monday, Though All the Fates Should Prove Unkind, st. 2
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Monday
Canyon, Texas, (October 30), 1916, pp. 209, 210
1915 - 1920, Letters to Anita Pollitzer' (1916)
"Working on a Dream"
Song lyrics, Working on a Dream (2009)