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 WHITMANSome people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
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O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.
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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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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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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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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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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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