Simple Structures

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“Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on entering York Minster or St. Peter’s at Rome, by the feeling that these structures are imitations also,—faint copies of an invisible archetype.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)