This is a beautiful country.

John Brown

John Brown's last words before his execution.

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Brown, John. Last written words. 2 Dec. 1859.

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Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic." Representative Men. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

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Another quote from 1859

Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.