The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.
WALT WHITMANLet your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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The art of art is simplicity.
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The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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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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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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