"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell"
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"I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!"
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"Dismiss whatever insults your soul."
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"The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long."
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"Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul."
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"NOT I - NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself."
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"Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea."
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"I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world."
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"A great city is that which has the greatest men and women."
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"I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth."
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"I exist as I am, that is enough."
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"The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you."
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"Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth."
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"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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"Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all."
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"Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away."
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"The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures"
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"Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard."
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"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
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"I and this mystery, here we stand."
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