#lowly

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#chance #cling #earth #fancy #feeling

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ↗

— Charles A. Beard

#dark #destroy #enough #exceedingly #fertilizes

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ↗

— Ernest Dimnet

#catastrophes #destructive #errors #fatal #great

I walk slowly into myself, through a forest of empty suits of armor. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#empty #forest #i #into #myself

I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#am #face #i #i am #itself

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. ↗

— Frederick W. Taylor

#competent #considerable #convince #devote #does

I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#again #almost #back #band #blue

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly. ↗

— Mae West

#doing #slowly #worth

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. ↗

— Edward Teller

#clearly #fast #goes #improves #life