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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

~Walt Whitman

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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

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

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Nothing endures but personal qualities.

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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

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He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

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I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 31st, 1819

Died: March 26th, 1892

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