Quotes by Walt Whitman

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Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Whitman, Walt

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 death  beauty  

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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 a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.
Whitman, Walt

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 baseball  

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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
Whitman, Walt

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 censorship  

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You must not know too much, or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and water-craft; a certain free margin, and even vagueness - perhaps ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things...
Whitman, Walt

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 nature  

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Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Whitman, Walt

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 human-rights  

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Camerado, I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give me yourself?
Whitman, Walt

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 love  

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Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank?
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 people  

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Whitman, Walt

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 death  

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