Walt Whitman Quotes, Country Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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

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The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

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Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for.

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Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

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Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.

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I do not seek good fortune - I am good fortune!

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I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

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Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

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My words itch at your ears till you understand them

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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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Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

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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 swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell

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That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

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Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.

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