It [baseball] will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us.


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He (President Abraham Lincoln) has a face like a hoosier Michael Angelo, so awful ugly it becomes be...
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If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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Oh captain my captain
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We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
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I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and loo...
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We were together. I forget the rest.
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Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch.
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When I give, I give myself
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Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
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I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise,
Regardless of others, ever regardful...
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep w...
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If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.
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Peace is always beautiful.
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I exist as I am, that is enough,
If no other in the world be aware I sit content,
And if...
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
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I am large, I contain multitudes
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Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is...
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.
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Behind this face that appears so impassive Hell's tides continually run
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Seeing, hearing and feeling are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
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Each of us inevitable; Each of us limitless - each of us with his or her right upon the earth; Each ...
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Many a good man I have seen go under.
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These are the days that must happen to you.
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I celebrate myself, and what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belon...
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Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?
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Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may...
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Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single w...
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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Simplicity is the glory of expression
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Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name...
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The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
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The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very wel...
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in ...
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Sail Forth- Steer for the deep waters only. Reckless O soul, exploring. I with thee and thou with me...
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