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Words to Live By

Posted April 10, 2007

"This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the
stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate
tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence
towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or
to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated
persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these
leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life:
re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any
books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul." -Walt Whitman