Iron Absorption

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or absorption:

“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“These philosophers dwell on the inevitability and unchangeableness of laws, on the power of temperament and constitution, the three goon, or qualities, and the circumstances, or birth and affinity. The end is an immense consolation; eternal absorption in Brahma.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)