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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

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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

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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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Be curious, not judgmental. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. ↗

— 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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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars. ↗

— 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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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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