Failing Quote by Walt Whitman

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman

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O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

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“it makes such difference where you read”

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Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

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I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

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So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most.

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We can't afford any president to fail.

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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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