The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
WALT WHITMANThe truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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All truths wait in all things.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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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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To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.
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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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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what’s popular and don’t know what you are investing in.
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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
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