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

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

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All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

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A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots.

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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 beautiful uncut hair of graves.

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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

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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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The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures

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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.

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To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate.

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I and this mystery, here we stand.

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A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.

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Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.

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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

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Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.

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Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

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Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find."

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Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part able, active, receptive, without shame or the need of shame.)

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