Walt Whitman Quotes, Life Quotes, Powerful Quotes

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.

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Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time

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

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

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All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it.

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The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!

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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls.

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My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

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You want to know a sure way to lose money? Buy what's popular and don't know what you are investing in.

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Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

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I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

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Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

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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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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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Oh, to be alive in such an age, when miracles are everywhere, and every inch of common air throbs a tremendous prophecy, of greater marvels yet to be.

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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