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Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

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(I know, it's a poem but oh well).Why! who makes much of a miracle? As to me, I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manha...more

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

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Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

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The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the ...more

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Come, said my SoulSuch verses for my Body let us write, (for we are one,)That should I after death invisibly return,Or, long, long hence, in other sph...more

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me.Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me; Whoev...more

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For we cannot tarry here,We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneer...more

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Trippers and askers surround me,People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward andcity I live in, or the nation,The latest dates, disc...more

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I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.