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- The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his…
- 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.
- To me the sea is a continual miracle; The fishes that swim - the rocks - the motion of the waves - the ships, with…
- I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them:…
- I know I am deathlessÂ…We have thus far exhausted trillions of winters and summers, There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
- That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well — it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling,…
- In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I…
- Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the…
- O joy of suffering! To struggle against great odds! to meet enemies undaunted! To be entirely alone with them! to find how much one can…
- To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface…
- The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they…
- 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…
- When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the…
- Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and…
- Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And…
- A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.
- TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once…
- My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me…
- You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the…
- I meet new Walt Whitmans everyday. There are a dozen of them afloat. I don't know which Walt Whitman I am.
- My words itch at your ears till you understand them
- Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,…
- I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be…
- I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them…
- It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous,…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster