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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

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I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
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Good Memory People Some Vision
Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….
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Behind Crazy Dreamed Horse Hurt Nothing Real
The Holy Land is everywhere.
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Inspirational Land Life
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Close Doing Everything Foolish
For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.
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Air Country Eagle Feathered Wings
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
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Country Native Stars Wind
As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
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Earth Prayer Sacred
So I took the bright red stick and at the center of the nation’s hoop I thrust it in the earth.
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Earth Red Sticks
It’s in the darkness of men’s eyes that they get lost.
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Darkness Eye Lost Men
The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.
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Boys Girl Girls Learned Warrior
He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.
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Compared Everything Know Prepared World
A good nation I will make live.This the nation above has said.They have given me the power to make over.
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Given Make Nations Over Said
And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.
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Breath Country Lightning Native
I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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might People Vision
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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Circles Country Moving Native
Everything tries to be round.
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I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

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