"Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs."
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"Long and long has the grass been growing, Long and long has the rain been falling, Long has the globe been rolling round."
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"The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss... it is inevitable as life."
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"In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I say of them."
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"Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me, if I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me."
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"To behold the day-break! The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows, The air tastes good to my palate."
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"For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable."
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"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all."
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"In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind."
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"What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"
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"I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is."
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"I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion's sake."
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"I will not descend among professors and capitalists."
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"But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred."
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"I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower."
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"Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature."
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"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"
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"I say you shall yet find the friend you were looking for."
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"The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are."
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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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