Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
WALT WHITMANThe ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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Simplicity is the glory of expression.
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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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A man can be a hero in any profession.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
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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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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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Be curious, not judgmental.
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Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass, Be not afraid of my body.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.
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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
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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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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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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
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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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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
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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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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.
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