• There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
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1. essential
2. sculpture
3. parthenon
4. earliest
5. greek

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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art. by : Ralph Waldo Emerson

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