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large, I contains multitudes)." | |
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Found in the topic Consistent.
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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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Found in the topic History.
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| "O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies
undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can stand!
To look strife, torture, prison, popular odium, death, face to face! To
mount the scaffold! to advance to the muzzles of guns with perfect
nonchalance! To be indeed a God!" | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as
affectionately as he has absorbed it." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall
assume." | |
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Found in the topic Atom.
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| "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the
stars." | |
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Found in the topic Grass.
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| "Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Re-examine all you have been told ... Dismiss what insults your
Soul." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "When I heard the learn"d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures,
were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and
diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the
astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture room, How
soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I
wander"d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to
time, Look"d up in perfect silence at the stars." | |
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Found in the topic Astrology.
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| "In the faces of men and women I see God." | |
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Found in the topic Face.
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| "Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to
grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth." | |
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Found in the topic Air.
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| "Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give, I
give myself." | |
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Found in the topic Self.
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| "Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions,
literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to
come, essentially the same ? to bring people back from their present
strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine,
original concrete." | |
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Found in the topic Abstract.
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| "If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred." | |
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Found in the topic Body.
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| "Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious
thoughts descend upon me?" | |
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Found in the topic Tree.
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| "O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms,
hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as the trees and the animals
do." | |
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Found in the topic Nature.
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| "A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics
of books." | |
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Found in the topic Flower.
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| "I am the man, I suffered, I was there." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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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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Found in the topic Children.
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| "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest
poem." | |
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Found in the topic Ambition.
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