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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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