Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
WALT WHITMANHenceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.
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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
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I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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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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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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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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The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
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Day by day and night by night we were together – all else has long been forgotten by me.
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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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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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We were together. I forget the rest.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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