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.
WALT WHITMANTo 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.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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I and this mystery, here we stand.
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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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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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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 believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.
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All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
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Where the earth is, we are.
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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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We convince by our presence.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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Every hour of every day is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
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