"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
"I say no body of men are fit to make Presidents, judges and generals, unless they themselves supply the best specimens of the same; and that supplying one or two such specimens illuminates the whole body for a thousand years."
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Source: Walt Whitman (2014). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.417, Melville House
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