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Dearest comrades, all is over and long gone, But love is not over...
The last explanation remains to be made about prudence;
Little and large alike drop quietly aside from the prudence that suits immortality.
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
How beautiful is candor! All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp.
All forces have been steadily employ'd to complete and delight me,
Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sun-rise would kill me,
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
All, all for immortality,
Love like the light silently wrapping all.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Logic and sermons never convince,
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
(Only what proves itself to every man and woman is so,
Only what nobody denies is so.)
Song of Myself (1855)
Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality,
And the vast that is evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The paths to the house I seek to make,
But leave to those to come the house itself.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
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.
Over all the sky—the sky! far, far out of reach, studded with the eternal stars.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Are you done with reviews and criticisms of life? animating now to life itself?
I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.
Whoever you are, motion and reflection are especially for you,
The divine ship sails the divine sea for you.