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

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

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

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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ... The sailor and traveller, the anatomist, chemist, astronomer, geologist, phrenologist, spiritualist, mathematician, historian and lexicographer are not poets, but they are the lawgivers of poets and their construction underlies the structure of every perfect poem.

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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

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O amazement of things-even the least particle!

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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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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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

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I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

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I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out.

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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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I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

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Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over.

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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.

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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.

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Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.

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For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.

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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

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I see behind each mask that wonder a kindred soul.

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