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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Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman

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

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

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I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you when I sit alone or wake at night alone, I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again, I am to see to it that I do not lose you. -- Walt Whitman

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And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles. -- Walt Whitman

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Make way for the unprecedented and watch your reality rearrange yourself. —Yrsa Daley-Ward.

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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- Walt Whitman

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I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman

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

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