Quote by Walt Whitman
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and we

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman

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Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. – Walt Whitman

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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. – Walt Whitman

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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. – Denis Diderot

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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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