Walt Whitman Quotes, Faith Quotes

I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.

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The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

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Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

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

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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 no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

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Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less, it comes or it lags behind, It comes from its embowered garden and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.

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Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love.

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All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon, The insignificant is as big to me as any, (What is less or more than a touch).

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The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.

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Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do.

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The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

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A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.

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Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice, him or her shall I follow.

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I sing the body that is electric! I celebrate the Self yet to be unveiled!

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

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