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 WHITMANGod is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
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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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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
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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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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.
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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.
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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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