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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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I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your bootsoles.

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I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years.

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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

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The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

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The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.

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I know perfectly well my own egotism.

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not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

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And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turn'd to beautiful results, And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death, And I will thread a thread through my poems that time and events are compact, And that all the things of the universe are perfect miracles, each as profound as any.

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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

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

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In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them.

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My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home.

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

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The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections.

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I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

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