The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged – keep on – there are divine things, well envelop’d; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
WALT WHITMANPeace is always beautiful.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place, not for another hour, but this hour.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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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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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
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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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