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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.
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Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.
Walt Whitman
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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman -
Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
Walt Whitman -
I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.
Walt Whitman -
All the past we leave behind; We debouch upon a newer, mightier world, varied world, Fresh and strong the world we seize, world of labor and the march, Pioneers! O Pioneers!
Walt Whitman -
Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.
Walt Whitman -
If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.
Walt Whitman
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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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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman -
Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.
Walt Whitman -
I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
Walt Whitman -
Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
Walt Whitman -
People who serve you without love get even behind your back.
Walt Whitman
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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.
Walt Whitman -
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out traveled road.
Walt Whitman -
I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.
Walt Whitman -
I am the man, I suffered, I was there.
Walt Whitman -
There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.
Walt Whitman -
O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.
Walt Whitman
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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.
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When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman -
This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.
Walt Whitman -
My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
Walt Whitman