Walt Whitman Quotes, Nature Quotes, Business Quotes

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.

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Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

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The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

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I will not descend among professors and capitalists.

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

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It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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Resist much, obey little.

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And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

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Silence? What can New York-noisy, roaring, rumbling, tumbling, bustling, story, turbulent New York-have to do with silence? Amid the universal clatter, the incessant din of business, the all swallowing vortex of the great money whirlpool-who has any, even distant, idea of the profound repose......of silence?

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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

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When I give, I give myself.

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When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

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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 like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

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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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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

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Peace is always beautiful.

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