When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Fl…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.175, Harvard University Press
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When I walk up the piazza of Santa Croce I feel as if it were not a Florentine nor an European church but a church built by and for the human race. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.175, Harvard University Press

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