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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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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The future is no more uncertain than the present. ↗

— 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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And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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