Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. ✨ 1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.
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I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.56, Harvard University Press
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). Emerson in His Journals, p.185, Harvard University Press
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Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. ✨ 1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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