Quote by Walt Whitman
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy. – Walt Whitman

Other quotes by Walt Whitman

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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Time
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The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep. – Walt Whitman

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Unrequited Love
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. – Walt Whitman

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Sympathy
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Other Quotes from
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. – Benito Mussolini

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History

History is the discipline closest to life; and life is rarely free of contradictions. – Karl J. Weintraub, Visions of Culture

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History

History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History

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History
[H]istory is a melodrama on the theme of parasitism, characterized by scenes that are exciting or dull, as the case may be, and many a sudden stagetrick. – Max Nordau, The Interpretation of History

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History

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When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. – George Pataki

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Government

We become aware of the void as we fill it. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Philosophical

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is lifes greatest adventure it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned. – Taylor Caldwell

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Learning

I dream about Cheers. Like when you go on a diet and you dream of pizza. I always think of those wonderful years. I loved working on it. – George Wendt

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diet