Walt Whitman Quotes, Joy Quotes, Lightning Quotes

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

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

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I keep thinking about you every few minutes all day.

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From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.

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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

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There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

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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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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

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Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

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Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you, The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.

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When he whom I love travels with me or sits a long while holding me by the hand, … Then I am charged with untold and untellable wisdom, I am silent, I require nothing further, I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, But I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, He ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.

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I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

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Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

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