He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
I'm pretty much the one that goes to the mound.
He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.
It is a good thing to follow the First Law of Holes: if you are in one, stop digging.
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got covered up,' is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging!
God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?