If the hive be disturbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey, it will yield us bees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet

Essay (1841), “Prudence,” Essays: First Series, No. 7
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Based on a lecture (winter 1837–1838), Boston, the seventh in his course on "Human Culture."