I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

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Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have...

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have...

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left...

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left...

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt...

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt...

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened.

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely...

Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely...

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world...

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,...

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,...

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;...

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow;...

Glory is the shadow of virtue

Glory is the shadow of virtue

What price Glory?

What price Glory?

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the...

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the...

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses...

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses...

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have...

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we...

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till...

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself Till...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man...