Quote by Walt Whitman
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep. – Walt Whitman

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In the broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. – Walt Whitman

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Press close bare-bosomed night — press close magnetic nourishing night! Night of south winds! night of the large few stars! Still nodding night! mad naked summer night. – Walt Whitman

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I have seen a flower blooming in beauty in a secluded vale, and, ere I had a chance to look again, a chilly breath of air had scattered its petals and left it a ruin. – Charles Lanman, “Musings,” 1840

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I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about. – J. R. R. Tolkien

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Time flies on restless pinions — constant never. – Friedrich Schiller

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Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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