Henry Bessemer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.
Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
How long does getting thin take?
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
People should be left to believe what they like, so long as they harm no one else. Apart from normal expectations of politeness, it is not however clear why people should require their personal beliefs to be treated with special sensitivity by others, to the point that if others fail to tip-toe respectfully around them they will start throwing bombs.
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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