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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 19443 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Art,” Society and Solitude (1870). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Emerson Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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