Walt Whitman quote: "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people."

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its ...
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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every o...
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When the full-grown poet came,
Out spake pleased Nature (the round impassive globe, with all WALT WHITMAN

It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citiz...
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This dust was once the man,
Gentle, plain, just and resolute, under whose cautious hand,
Agai...
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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What do you think has become of the young and old men?
What do you think has become of the women ...
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with t...
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,<...
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an...
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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dr...
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Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the p...
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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, ...
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sa...
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
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I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to ...
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough
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WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, N...
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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone he...
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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its ...
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth --...
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This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to ever...
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What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life...
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Resist much, obey little.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immens...
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music,
And my heart, O my ...
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of po...
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found ...
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The pas...
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and signi...
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it,...
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They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for th...
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still ...
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and not...
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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
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Camerado, I give you my hand!
I give you my love more precious than money,
I give you myself ...
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant thre...
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, ...
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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with...
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The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head...
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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe wi...
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Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night...
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O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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...The city fireman-the fire that suddenly bursts forth in the close-pack'd square,
The arriving...
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When I heard the learn
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their ti...
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul. -Walt Whitman.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range ...
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged-- keep on-- there are divi...
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Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying ...
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The butcher in his killing clothes.
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On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Up throu...
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To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, wh...
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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In the faces of men and women I see God.
WALT WHITMAN

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles an...
WALT WHITMAN

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with ...
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
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If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred
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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat a...
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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for th...
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Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over the well.
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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another n...
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
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Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Demo...
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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of...
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
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When I give I give myself.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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We convince by our presence.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
WALT WHITMAN

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
WALT WHITMAN

To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up...
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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child...
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Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.
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I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you,
And you must not be abas...
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood asid...
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I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

All seems bea...
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O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless�...
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The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and fin...
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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love
If you want me again look for me un...
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why ...
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Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons.
It is to grow in the open air and to eat...
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I...
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose t...
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If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about G...
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
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Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling.
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
WALT WHITMAN

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found t...
WALT WHITMAN

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
WALT WHITMAN

There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he look'd upon, that object he becam...
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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age ma...
WALT WHITMAN

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and...
WALT WHITMAN

I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triu...
WALT WHITMAN

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitude...
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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and wat...
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There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots,...
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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well thenI contradict myselfI am large, I contain multitudes.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
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The future is no more uncertain than the present
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He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes be...
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Oh captain my captain
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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and loo...
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical ...
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When I give, I give myself
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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
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I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
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I am large, I contain multitudes
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
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Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
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Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
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Many a good man I have seen go under.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
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Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
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Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression
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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
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The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
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Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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Walt Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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