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I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and all be aware I sit content.

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

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I have said that the soul is not more than the body,And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,And nothing, not God, is greater to one th...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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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself I am large I contain multitudes.

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I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, None has done justice to you, you have not done ju...more

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WE two boys together clinging,One the other never leaving,Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,Power enjoying, elbows stretc...more

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Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

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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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Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls.

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One world is aware and by far the largest to me, and that is myself, / And whether I come to my own to-day or in ten thousand or ten / million years, ...more

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To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

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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 depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runway sun, I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again look for ...more