“Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.”
History
“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
GreatAll Quotes by Walt Whitman
“Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.”
Time“I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.”
Time“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”
Sympathy“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.”
Beauty“Produce great men, the rest follows.”
Great“A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.”
Great“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
Best“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.”
Art“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Great“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”
Death“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
Great“Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.”
Freedom“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Nature“Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.”
Nature“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.”
Nature“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.”
Best“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”
Great“We convince by our presence.”
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