Walt Whitman Quotes, War Quotes, Blood Quotes

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

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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

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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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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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

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All truths wait in all things.

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I know I am deathlessWe have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.

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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

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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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Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?

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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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We consider bibles and religions divine I do not say they are not divine. I say they have all grown out of you, and may grow out of you still. It is not they who give the life, it is you who give the life.

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I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

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I permit to speak at every hazard, Nature without check with original energy

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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

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You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

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A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

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