Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.
Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry,
Out of an unseen quarry evermore
Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
Curves his white bastions with projected roof
Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.
Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work
So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he
For number or proportion.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.