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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

Walt Whitman

To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts, to feed the remainder of life with one hour of fullness and freedom – one brief hour of madness and joy.
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Destruction Drive Freedom Joy Life Madness Remainder Taunt
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.
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Be not ashamed women, You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
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Body Gate Shame Soul Women Women Empowerment
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.
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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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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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Where the earth is, we are.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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Curious Judgement One Liner
The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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Future Inspirational One Liner Present Uncertain
All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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Face Fall Inspirational Positive Shadow Sunshine
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Book One Liner War
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner Peace Positive

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