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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing 'base', a certain game of ball ... Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms ... the game of ball is glorious.
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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
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Each of us inevitable;Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appeared. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed;I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold,And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.