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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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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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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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Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

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Dismiss whatever insults your soul.

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More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy.

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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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But where is what I started for so long ago? And why is it yet unfound?

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

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

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From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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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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I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.

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To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?

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An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation.

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I hate commas in the wrong places.

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