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"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."

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle."

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."

"I accept reality and dare not question it."

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."

"Every moment of light and dark is a miracle."

"What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!"

"We convince by our presence."

"And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero."

"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

"Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?"

"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."

"There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe."

"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."

"I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?"

"Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."

"I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."

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