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Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: May 31
Died: 1892
Died: March 26
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Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail
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I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.
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Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Comrades mine and I in the midst, and their memory ever to keep for the dead I loved so well.
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For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers!
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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.
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To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
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Each of us inevitable Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.
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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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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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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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