Walt Whitman Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Democracy Quotes

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

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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

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The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

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The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

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I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

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The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

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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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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

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Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning, I am surely far different from what you suppose.

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Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round.

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Many a good man I have seen go under.

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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

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As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

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Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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