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"I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences."
"And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles"
"I am an acme of things accomplished, and I an encloser of things to be."
"I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world; I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than I have supposed."
"Agonies are one of my changes of garments."
"I tramp a perpetual journey."
"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear."
"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."
"What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?"
"Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another."
"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."
"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?"
"Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary."
"I know I am deathless We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them."
"A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking."
"O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is."
"The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
"I see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved, saying to the people, "Do not weep for me, This is not my true country, I have lived banished from my true country - I now go back there, I return to the celestial sphere where every one goes in his turn.""