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Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

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O America! Because you build for mankind I build for you.

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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

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Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

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All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

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We were together. I forget the rest.

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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?

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All the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake.

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I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

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Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.

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I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing.

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I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

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