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I sing the body electric.

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

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This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.

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

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

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I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness.

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My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

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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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Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

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

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !

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Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

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The work for giants...to serve well the guns!

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I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

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I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.

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I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

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