Maxioms by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless!
Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
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Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of
night, time out of space, and space out of time.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
