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• Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. Henceforth, I ask not good fortune, I myself am good fortune. Henceforth, I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing.

  Walt Whitman

  Light, Long, Healthy

  'Song of the Open Road' 1, l. 1

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• We convince by our presence.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.323, Delphi Classics

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• The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you.

  Walt Whitman

  Purpose, Whole, One Thing

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• I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Stars, Believe

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 31

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• The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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  Relationship, Happiness, Generosity

  Walt Whitman (1964). “Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts”, Russell & Russell Publishers

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• Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless-each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

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  Earth, Limitless, Individual

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.174, NYU Press

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

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  Leadership, Men, Example

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  "Specimen Days & Collect".

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• I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Tamed, Bits

  "Song of Myself " l. 1332 (written 1855)

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  Walt Whitman

  Funny, Friendship, Believe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Inspirational, Crazy

  Walt Whitman (1953). “The best of Whitman”

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• There will never be any more perfection than there is now.

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  Perfection, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.14

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• The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

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  Trying, President, Meals

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

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  Karma, Attitude, Positive Thinking

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.226, NYU Press

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• All is procession; the universe is a procession with measured and beautiful motion.

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  Beautiful, Action, Procession

  Walt Whitman (1855). “Leaves of Grass”, p.80

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• Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

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  Book, School, Eye

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.20, Delphi Classics

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• It is only the novice in political economy who thinks it is the duty of government to make its citizens happy - government has no such office.

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  Thinking, Government, Office

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.

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  Excess, Strange, Mark

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• I and this mystery, here we stand.

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  Mystery

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.3, NYU Press

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• O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

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  Love, Dream, Your Side

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.406, NYU Press

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• I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

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  Boots, Hats

  Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.148, Psychology Press

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• When I give, I give myself.

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  Dance, Helping Others, Giving

  "Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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• From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.

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  Lines, Limits, Hours

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.228, NYU Press

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• The future is no more uncertain than the present.

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  Inspirational, Life, Future

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.

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  Laughing, Doubt, Reincarnation

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