Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
WALT WHITMANWhat is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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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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I hate commas in the wrong places.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him – it cannot fail.
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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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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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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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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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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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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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We convince by our presence.
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