"Whatever satisfies the soul is truth."
-Walt Whitman
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"And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.“
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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
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