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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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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

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I know perfectly well my own egotism.

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I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

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

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An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by the limner's cunning. Time, space, both are annihilated, and we identify the semblance with the reality.

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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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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?

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Simplicity is the glory of expression.

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Oh captain my captain

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In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.

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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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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

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