this is what you shall do:
love the earth and sun and the 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
toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man
or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the
young and with the mothers of children, 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 book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your
very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its
words but in the silent lines of your lips and face and between the lashes of
your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
Walt Whitman
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