Famous Quotes | Raphael paints wisdom; Handel...

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. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Attribution: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Art,” Society and Solitude (1870).

Categories: Essayist, Philosopher, Wisdom

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