A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
WALT WHITMANA writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
More Walt Whitman Quotes
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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
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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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Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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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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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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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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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what’s popular and don’t know what you are investing in.
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To 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.
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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.
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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
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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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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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