Walt Whitman Quotes, Death Quotes, Country Quotes

I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn."

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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

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The art of art, the glory of expression, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity, and the sunlight of letters is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity-nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.

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I love doctors and hate their medicine.

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There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

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I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be.

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O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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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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That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.

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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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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

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All truths wait in all things,/They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it

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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.

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

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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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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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