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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.

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Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.

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O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?

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What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

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I am the man, I suffered, I was there.

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Are you the new person drawn toward me?

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Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

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The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.

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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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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife; and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.

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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

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NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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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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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.

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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

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I dance with the dancers.

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Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later, delicate death.

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