Walt Whitman Quotes, Children Quotes, Revenge Quotes

God is a mean-spirited, pugnacious bully bent on revenge against His children for failing to live up to his impossible standards.

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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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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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

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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of use there that it may pass on and come to its flower and fruit in manners, in the highest forms of interaction between people, and their beliefs - in religion, literature, colleges and schools- democracy in all public and private life.

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Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road.

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O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

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And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other, And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific, And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

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Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.

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My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them

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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

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I exist as I am, that is enough.

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But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.

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Produce great men, the rest follows.

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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

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