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Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Has anyone supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her that it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.
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Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour.
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The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.
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I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.
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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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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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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
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Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.
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Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.
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