Nothing endures but personal qualities |
Nothing endures but personal qualities |
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. |
O lands! O all so dear to me -- what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. |
O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. |
Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. |
Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people |
Peace is always beautiful, The myth of heaven indicates peace and night |
Pour down your warmth great sun! |
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. |
Produce great men, the rest follows. |
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. |
Reexamine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. |
Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me. For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves, and all. |
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!) |