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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
Walt Whitman
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
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We convince by our presence.
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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman -
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Walt Whitman -
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Walt Whitman
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman -
I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
Walt Whitman -
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, 'Do not weep for me,This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country-I now go back there,I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.'
Walt Whitman -
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
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Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman -
You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.
Walt Whitman -
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman -
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman -
I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman -
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
Walt Whitman
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
Walt Whitman -
Youth, large, lusty, loving-Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!Do you know that Old Age may come after you, with equal grace, force, fascination?
Walt Whitman -
Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
Walt Whitman