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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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. -- 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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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being, Freedom from ambition,Creation.

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Resist much, obey little. -- Walt Whitman

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

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The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature. ― John Piper

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If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. -- 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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Lovers alone wear sunlight. ― E.E. Cummings

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