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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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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

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

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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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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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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

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Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

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You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

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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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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

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O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won

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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

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