"straightway like a bell Came low and clear The slow, sad murmur of the distant seas"

-- James Kenneth Stephen

#Sea Quotes #Bells Quotes #Lows Quotes

“You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.”
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.”
“Whatâ€™s writing really about? Itâ€™s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.”
“Your worth as a person does not come from what you are paid. It comes from who you are and what you give.”
“The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.”
“I've really tried to learn the art of clothes, because you don't sell for what you're worth unless you look good.”
“Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.”
“Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that he thought it most interesting that a calculus which so strongly appealed to the human mind by its intrinsic beauty and symmetry should prove to be especially adapted to the study of natural phenomena. The mind of man and that of Nature's God must work in the same channels.”

Source : "The American Mathematical Monthly: The Official Journal of the Mathematical Association of America, Volume 32". Book published by The Association (p. 6), 1925.

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