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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One class live to the utility of the symbol, esteeming health and wealth a final good. Another class live above this mark to the beauty of the symbol, as the poet and artist and the naturalist and man of science. A third class live above the beauty of the symbol to the beauty of the thing signified; these are wise men.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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