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To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.

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Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

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Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

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If you done it, it ain't bragging.

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We convince by our presence.

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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 cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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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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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

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Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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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 have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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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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The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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