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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.

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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

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As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper Yellowstone and the like afford the greatest natural shows, I am not so sure but the prairies and plains, while less stunning at first sight, last longer, fill the esthetic sense fuller, precede all the rest, and make North America's characteristic landscape.

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

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THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.

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My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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

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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

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I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

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I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

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I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary.

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I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass.

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Comerado, this is no book,Who touches this, touches a man,(Is it night? Are we here alone?)It is I you hold, and who holds you,I spring from the pages into your arms-decease calls me forth.

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What has miserable, inefficient Mexico...to do with the great mission of peopling the New World with a noble race?

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