#si

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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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#each #happy #other #single #single word

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

#behind #bigots #fools #front #go

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

#constraint #contrary #every #law #laws

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#bad #bad manners #called #humanity #manners

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#art #been #beyond #democracy #displacing

Simplicity is the glory of expression. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#glory #simplicity

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#individual #single #single individual #theory #universe

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business. ↗

— Meredith Whitney

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