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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman
Cities and City Life
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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
Flower
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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
Nature
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
Frankness
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
Professions and Professionals
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman
Sympathy
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Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman
Judgment and Judges
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Self-sacrifice
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Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
Walt Whitman
Books and Reading
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Camerado, 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?
Walt Whitman
Friends and Friendship
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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).
Walt Whitman
Contradiction
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
Opposites
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Freedom -- to walk free and own no superior.
Walt Whitman
Freedom
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman
Losers and Losing
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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
Walt Whitman
Learning
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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman
Style
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
Fortune
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman
Time and Time Management
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How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!
Walt Whitman
Argument
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I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman
Reality
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
Self-esteem
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I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
Walt Whitman
Parties
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Walt Whitman
Nature
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman
Loneliness
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I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
Walt Whitman
Self-love
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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.
Walt Whitman
Obesity
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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
Universe
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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
Walt Whitman
Uncategorised
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Walt Whitman
Enemies
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If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Walt Whitman
Conceit
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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.
Walt Whitman
God
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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy. Government has no such office. To protect the weak and the minority from the impositions of the strong and the majorityto prevent any one from positively working to render the people unhappy, to do the labor not of an officious inter-meddler in the affairs of men, but of a prudent watchman who prevents outragethese are rather the proper duties of a government. Under the specious pretext of effecting the happiness of the whole community, nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government have been carried through. The legislature may, and should, when such things fall in its way, lend its potential weight to the cause of virtue and happinessbut to legislate in direct behalf of those objects is never available, and rarely effects any even temporary benefit.
Walt Whitman
Uncategorised
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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.
Walt Whitman
Change
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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt Whitman
Death and Dying
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
Walt Whitman
Character
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O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
Walt Whitman
Land
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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
Travel and Tourism
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O the joy of the strong-brawn'd fighter, towering in the arena in perfect condition, conscious of power, thirsting to meet his opponent.
Walt Whitman
Army and Navy
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
Control
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Walt Whitman
Age and Aging
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
Walt Whitman
Class
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Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.
Walt Whitman
Masses
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Press close bare-bosomed night -- press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night.
Walt Whitman
Night
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman
Example
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Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!)
Walt Whitman
Festival
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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
Miracle
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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?
Walt Whitman
Speech
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Walt Whitman
Simplicity
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
Walt Whitman
Burial
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Walt Whitman
Independence
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
Walt Whitman
Sleep
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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
People
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
Cities and City Life
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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
Past
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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
Liberty
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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman
Humankind
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
Walt Whitman
Books and Reading
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Their manners, speech, dress, friendships, -- the freshness and candor of their physiognomy -- the picturesque looseness of their carriage -- their deathless attachment to freedom -- their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean -- the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states -- the fierceness of their roused resentment -- their curiosity and welcome of novelty -- their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy -- their susceptibility to a slight -- the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors -- the fluency of their speech -- their delight in music, a sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul -- their good temper and open-handedness -- the terrible significance of their elections, the President's taking off his hat to them, not they to him -- these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.
Walt Whitman
United States of America
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman
Things and Little Things
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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.
Walt Whitman
Tyranny
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
Education
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They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
Walt Whitman
Animal
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
Walt Whitman
Faces
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This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Whitman
Life and Living
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Walt Whitman
Death and Dying
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Walt Whitman
Audience
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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman
Miracle
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman
Manners
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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.
Walt Whitman
Language
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We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman
Present
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!
Walt Whitman
Poverty and The Poor
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Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman
Truth
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When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
Giving
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When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars.
Walt Whitman
Astronomy
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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
Youth
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