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Resist much, obey little.

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The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.

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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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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 am large, I contain multitudes

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This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

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Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

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

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Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

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And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.

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The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.

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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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We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.

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