"To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with men in them, what stranger miracles are there?"
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"All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain."
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"A man can be a hero in any profession"
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"The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem."
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"All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments."
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"I refuse putting from me the best that I am."
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"Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul."
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"I wear my hat as I please, indoors or out."
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"I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know i held so much goodness."
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"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."
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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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"Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost."
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"I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty."
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"What beauty there is in words; what a lurking curious charm in the sound some words."
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"...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms."
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"You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers..."
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"With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them."
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"O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!"
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"That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere — belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life."
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"The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual."
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