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 gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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Do anything, but let it produce joy.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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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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