“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
Walt Whitman
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“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
Walt Whitman
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“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.”
Walt Whitman
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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
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“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes).”
Walt Whitman
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“If you done it, it ain’t bragging.”
Walt Whitman
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conceit
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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
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“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Walt Whitman
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“Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
Walt Whitman
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“There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.”
Walt Whitman
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“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Walt Whitman
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“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
Walt Whitman
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“The beautiful uncut hair of graves.”
Walt Whitman
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“Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.”
Walt Whitman
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“The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.”
Walt Whitman
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“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
Walt Whitman
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Style
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“The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.”
Walt Whitman
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“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”
Walt Whitman
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Sacrifice
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“I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.”
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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Self-esteem
