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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

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

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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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All truths wait in all things.

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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Oh captain my captain

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O to speed where there is space enough and air enough at last!

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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

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