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I hope that you will not tell me you have little fault to find with me, without finding that little and communicating it.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
The world may be utterly crazy
And life may be labour in vain;
But I'd rather be silly than lazy,
And would not quit life for its pain.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
How the learned fool would wonder
Were he now to see his blunder,
When he put his reason under
The control of worldly Pride.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
Ask no more, then, "what is best,
How shall those you love be blest,"
Ask at once eternal Rest,
Peace and assurance giving.
Rest of Life and not of death,
Rest in Love and Hope and Faith,
Til the God who gives their breath
Calls them to rest from living.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
But listen, what harmony holy
Is mingling its notes with our own!
The discord is vanishing slowly,
And melts in that dominant tone.
And they that have heard it can never
Return to confusion again,
Their voices are music for ever,
And join in the mystical strain.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
By the hollow mauntain-side
Questions strange I shout for ever,
While echoes far and wide
Seem to mock my vain endeavour;
Still I shout, for though they never
Cast my borrowed voice aside,
Words from empty words they sever—
Words of Truth from words of Pride.
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)