"O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?"
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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."
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"Clear and sweet is my soul, clear and sweet is all that is not my soul."
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"Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won."
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"Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
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"Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death."
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud."
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"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."
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"All truths wait in all things."
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"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
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"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it."
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"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
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"The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it."
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"I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out."
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"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."
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"I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them."
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"O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won"
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"The beautiful uncut hair of graves."
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