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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In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass, I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name. And I leave them where they are, for I know that wherever I go, others will punctually come for ever and ever.Walt Whitman
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
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There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day... or for many years or stretching cycles of years...
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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
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Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything
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Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially the same to bring people back from their present strayings and sickly abstractions, to the costless, average, divine, original concrete.
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