More and more too, the old ...

More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, \'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.\' How fit a name for America\'s great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name for America's great democratic island city! The word itself, how beautiful! how aboriginal! how it seems to rise with tall spires, glistening in sunshine, with such New World atmosphere, vista and action!
 Walt Whitman

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Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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In the faces of men and women, I see God.
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I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
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