Walt Whitman Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Democracy Quotes

The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!

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We were together. I forget the rest.

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I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

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I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

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Oh captain my captain

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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

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

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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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I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.

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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

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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 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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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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