“Not from a vain or shallow thought
His awful Jove young Phidias brought.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm

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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882

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