Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman

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All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. -- Walt Whitman

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I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, It alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder. -- Walt Whitman

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I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms. -- Walt Whitman

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My words itch at your ears till you understand them. -- Walt Whitman

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Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life. -- Walt Whitman

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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. -- Walt Whitman

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Do you take it I would astonish? Does the daylight astonish? does the early red start twittering through the woods? Do I astonish more than they? -- Walt Whitman

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I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. --

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Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. -- Walt Whitman

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