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Walt Whitman

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.

Business

Walt Whitman

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Art

Walt Whitman

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

Funny

Walt Whitman

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Freedom