The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
WALT WHITMANI no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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We convince by our presence.
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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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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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Where the earth is, we are.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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The art of art is simplicity.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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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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All truths wait in all things.
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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