Walt Whitman

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• In the faces of men and women I see God.

  Song of Myself (1855), Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Song of Myself, 48In context

  • God

• To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
  Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Miracles

  • Nature

• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Starting from Paumanok. 12

  • Beauty
  • Life & Death

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy