Tag: Walt Whitman
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Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.
Walt Whitman
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We convince by our presence.
Walt Whitman
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
Walt Whitman
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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