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January 5, 2008

the eternal cause

Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause:-
"If my bark sink, 'tis to another sea."


Emerson - Montaigne; Or, The Skeptic

Posted by amin at January 5, 2008 1:44 AM