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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. – Walt Whitman

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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains. – Walt Whitman

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Business
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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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Night, Nighttime
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Walt Whitman
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Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting. – Leonardo DaVinci

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I never ask God to give me anything; I only ask him to put me where things are. – Mexican Proverb

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Perspective

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? – John Churton Collins, Aphorisms in the English Review, 1914

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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

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A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. – David Riesman

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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. – Henry Miller

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May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks. – Joseph Lancaster

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