Walt Whitman Quotes, Night Quotes, Space Quotes

I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

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You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

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

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A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

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Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.

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I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

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O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.

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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.

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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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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

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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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God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.

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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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