Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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Walt Whitman Quote
“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?”
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