Walt Whitman Quotes, Science Quotes, Years Quotes

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

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I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

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When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd / And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, / I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

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The real war will never get in the books.

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

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

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I dote on myself. There is a lot of me and all so luscious.

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Long have you timidly waded Holding a plank by the shore, Now I will you to be a bold swimmer, To jump off in the midst of the sea, Rise again, nod to me, shout, And laughingly dash with your hair.

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And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

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A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

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Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

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Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

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Sex contains all, Bodies, Souls, meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations, Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk; All hopes, benefactions, bestowals, All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts of itself, and justifications of itself.

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

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The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

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