Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Quotes by Walt Whitman
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Simplicity is the glory of expression.
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
Be curious, not judgmental.
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
When I give I give myself.
I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
We convince by our presence.
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
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.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
If you done it, it ain't bragging.
Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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